Been looking for a search engine that isn’t plauged with SEO garbage every time I look for anything. Been using DDG for quite a long time now, and I’m starting to get dissatisfied with results. It seems like more and more results are just companies trying to make their way to the top of the search results instead of anything organic. It’s even worse when I look for any kind of service or product.

Looking for as close to 100% organic results as possible.

  • OOFshoot@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I use Ecosia which is a reskin of bing that plants trees with your search results. I’ve never had any issues with low quality results, but maybe we have different ideas of what that means.

    • infamousbelgian@waste-of.spaceEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How are they dealing with your privacy? I’m not an extremist on that front but it was such a relief to stop seeing adds about everything I Googled when I switched to DDG.

      • OOFshoot@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They don’t track you.

        https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

        We only run “context-based” ads, meaning that they are selected as a function of your search term. If you search for “green bank” you likely are interested in green banking ads.

        Google and Bing itself operate very differently. They do what critics call “surveillance-based” advertisements. Before serving you an ad they might look at what you searched for in the past, what emails you wrote, which videos you watched, and what you bought with your credit card. They probably are also taking your search terms in order to influence what banner advertisements to show you in their office products or elsewhere.