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Since Internet search has and will change, which search engines do you use successfully, and what are their advantages?

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[–] Clairvoidance@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

might not count, but I use startpage, which uses google while allegedly keeping none of the info that makes google problematic
sometimes i use duckduckgo,

in firefox you can make a shortcut to type anything in any searchbar too, like so: (in this example I'll use kbin.social search)

We type something into search to get the exact url we need, that ends up being https://kbin.social/search?q=[something] in this case
[something] is obviously what we typed, so we save a bookmark of https://kbin.social/search?q=%s where %s swaps out what we type when we refer to the bookmark
Then we give the bookmark a keyword that makes it easy to type, so like, k, now whenever i type 'k somethingsomething' it will search somethingsomething on kbin.social

I use this for youtube, arch wiki, the type-effectiveness graph on bulbapedia pages ( https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%s_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Type_effectiveness ), etc, etc