arstechnica ,
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Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/bing-outage-shows-just-how-little-competition-google-search-really-has/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

tom ,
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@arstechnica I used during the outage of duckduckgo.

margual56 ,
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@arstechnica there is always search.brave.com and searx.github.io

FinnleyDolfin ,
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@arstechnica @aeleoglyphic

And I’m over here still using Lycos

triskelion ,
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@arstechnica @Mojeek and Stract looks good but search results are really bad. searXNG is nice if you can self-host but none of the public instance looks trustworty. I'm currently using @brave search, results are good but they enable usage analytics or something by default, you can turn it off in preference but I'm always using browser private mode in Librewolf so it's annoying to turn it off every time and also companies relation with crypto stuff is somewhat shady

manu ,
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Thank you @arstechnica !
I almost forgot that these two (Microsoft & Google) still exist...

Colbycolby ,

@arstechnica I tried Mojeek and SearXNG and got useful results from both

TheDailyBurble ,
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@arstechnica I know we'll only get corporate fluff from themselves but anyone know what happened to the web giants this time?

tizian ,

@arstechnica Reading this article, I decided to give @Mojeek a long standing go; and just realised one can't even change the standard search engine in Brave Browser on Android to custom ones. Seems I'm also switching to Firefox.

Still need to keep Brave, though. No other browser is able to block all YouTube advertisements. :BlobhajShock:

epistomai ,
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@arstechnica me using qwant, duck duck go, and everything else than those two.

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Bot4Sale ,

@arstechnica I've never used it but according to https://avoidthehack.com/best-private-search Brave search does not rely on Bing or Google for search results. It may have other issues however (ie. privacy issues)

dancamper ,
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@arstechnica https://kagi.com for the win!

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