What is the least SEO-fucked search engine?

kionite231, 2 years ago

yandex.com if you don’t mind ru gov spying on you. Though you can use it with tor or VPN for privacy.

zemon, 2 years ago

I use Swisscows and Metager, and usually find what I need, if I don’t I retry the query with Startpage.

citizenserious, 2 years ago

Where can I find soemthing about startpage changing to bing?

Lucidlethargy, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

Probably the new Google search that uses Bard. It’s not public yet, but you can ask for access.

Edit: It’s currently referred to as “generative search”, and you can use it on Android if you sign up for the beta version of the app on the play store.

JohnDClay, 2 years ago

Does it link to it’s sources yet?

Lamy, 2 years ago

Your own whonix

curiousgoo, 2 years ago

I am not sure whether DDG or SearX results are optimised by someone, but it is different from what I would see on Google for a given topic.

ChrisFhey, 2 years ago

Duckduckgo uses search results from Bing, combined with other search engines and their own bot if Wikipedia is to be believed.

No Google search results are used.

Dirk, 2 years ago

This explains why their results are so much worse than Google’s.

brecht, 2 years ago

Palpable 2015 energy in this take right here.

Alto, 2 years ago

5 years ago sure. Not sure I really agree nowadays.
Granted, that has as much to do with Google getting much worse as it does DDG getting better.

livus, 2 years ago

For some things. For other things they're better. Google has really jumped the shark in the past two years.

I mostly just use it for when I want corporate style results, like shopping.

CrabAndBroom, 2 years ago

DDG seems to get most of their results from Bing, but they do tweak it a bit themselves. From the link:

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.