Bing no, duckduckgo yes.
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In my experience, Yandex has always been better for piracy than any other search engine.
I've been using duck duck for the last 2 years and it's fine if you don't need localized results. If I'm searching for x thing in y area then I go back to Google for that.
I use ddg to search for things in my area all the time. I just use near instead of near me.
I'm not google free though. I pay for YouTube premium and have a couple Gmail addresses.
Rounder you can bang duckduck....that is to say.
Search term !g will lead yoir search in google. !GI for Google images. Theres hundred's.
One of the things I like about DDG is that you can turn localised results on/off whenever you like and even chose the location. Also localised search is pretty good for me too.
I think so? It's pretty solid and it works well overall. Anything is better than Google or Bing for your online privacy. If you want more privacy, you can try using SearxNG or 4get
I like the DuckDuckGo search engine, but I don't care much for their browsers (mobile nor desktop). I do keep the browser app on my phone so I can generate alias Duck addresses, I do find that feature pretty handy.
As for how private DDG search is, I feel like the best practice for using any search engine privately is to clear browser data when you're done searching with it. That's a hassle though, so it's smart to have a browser dedicated to temporary browsing sessions that you don't plan to go back to later. On Android, browsers like Firefox (and forks like Mull) as well as Cromite allow you to set it so browsing data clears when you exit the browser.
yandex is pretty solid for finding media
From my experience, not really. It's more of a chore. I still find it ironically useful through Google.
duckduckgo seems to provide weird llm generated "summaries" instead of actual description recently though. I heard they come from Bing but not entirely sure.