Hi everyone, so I hear that a lot of are lost in choosing a good search engine apart from the popular ones, but I think I have the solution
The search engine I’ve been using on all my devices is named “Qwant” its French and of course European. Its private and fast, I’ve been using it and didn’t had any issues with it.
So yes I am also new here on Lemmy and just wanted to be useful.
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I’ve been using Qwant for about a month now on Vivaldi. I’m happy and see no reason to go back to Google full time. What I do miss from Google though is things like showing business opening times when searching
Yea I am also using Vivaldi too and I really like the freedom of customizations and its also European which is a huge plus and its privacy focused. I think Qwant and Vivaldi makes a great internet browsing experience in my opinion.
It has pretty good results in my experience.
Brave search also does, but it always wants me to complete captchas so I’m not using it anymore.
Brave Browser may be a bit problematic.
Yeah brave search can be used without the browser. But I can understand not wanting to use either given that info.
Brave Search is separate from the browser. I use it in Firefox.
Totally, but it’s the same company, no? Wouldn’t the issues with the ownership of the browser also pertain to the search engine?
i really like 4get, it’s proxy, and it has scrapers from most search engines available
Immediate captcha on my first search lol.
yeah that’s kinda annoying, it’s there to fight the bots… it will give you 100 searches per day, and you can check other instances that don’t have it
Just annoying that as usual it shows up on Firefox but not if I use Edge or Chrome.
I really feel like captchas single out Firefox intentionally.
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anyone know what their plans are exactly in terms of switching away from bing?
also altough I smile everytime im not using google or bing directly anymore while getting these amazing results with that nice qwant UI:
it’s image search is my biggest complaint usecase wise. the results are small, non-scalable and theres no similar search upon focusing one result
anyone know what their plans are exactly in terms of switching away from bing?
They are working with Ecosia to build their own, shared search index, rather than be reliant on the corporate ones.
Thanks exactly what I was looking for. I wish they’d give more updates 😅
As I understand, it’s no small task to build or maintain a working search index. There’s a reason it’s mostly been huge, corporate entities that take on the challenge, and why smaller search providers tend to rely on preexisting ones.
So I applaud Qwant and Ecosia on their initiative, but also understand that it may take a while before it bears fruit.
from youtube video “De-Google Your Life”
Ecosia has it’s own index with qwant so this is not entirely correct
Also, with qwant you can just use bangs.
