Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.
I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I’ll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you’re careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It’s useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.
This article on Ars (and if you’re not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results
Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.
Kagi on iOS and Mac. DDG w/Google on Android because my preferred Android browser, Vivaldi, doesn’t offer Kagi. Anyone know how to default Vivaldi to Kagi?
Have you tried the instructions listed in the Kagi documentation?
Yes, I tried several of their suggested methods. But… Vivaldi on android doesn’t support plug-ins. Typing this (chrome://settings/searchEngines) doesn’t open any settings. There is no “recently visited” option in the search engine section of the settings. There’s no “add search engine” option either.