The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture

Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by cpeterso on Friday January 13, 2012 @01:50AM (#3459481)

Any suggestions from people who have switched from Google to another search engine?

I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, but I gave up after a few days. DuckDuckGo's results were very good for popular/mainstream terms, but Google is much better at deep "needle in haystack" searches.

I later switched from Google to Bing, but I gave up after one day. Bing's results were very random and stale. And Bing is ugly. :)

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by white_devil on Friday January 13, 2012 @04:59AM (#3459905)

You could always just use DDG by default, and then resort to Google only when you really need it. That's what I've been doing for 1 - 2 years now.

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by BCM43 on Friday January 13, 2012 @04:12AM (#3459795)

I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, but I gave up after a few days. DuckDuckGo's results were very good for popular/mainstream terms, but Google is much better at deep "needle in haystack" searches.

When was this? It's gotten a lot better for me.

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by guard-of-terra on Friday January 13, 2012 @04:07AM (#3459787)

Give Yandex a try. The results would be stale too but at least it looks nice.

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