For a giggle a thought I would swap over to DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine, as opposed to Google. No particular reason but just one of those "try these things". For those unfamiliar they positioned themselves as a privacy concerned general purpose search engine similar to Google, Bing, Yahoo or the like. As part of it I deleted Google from the browser as well so could not flip back. Privacy in this instance is not a great selling point for me but might be for some.
Had a great time. Didn't find myself reaching for an alternative during it.
Right click and link/image grab in image search actually works without needing a script to stop the stupid auto replace or visit the site in question.
Can find channels, concepts and sites that were blacklisted because they offended someone's sensibilities along the line and thus don't appear in general Google any more, or the internal engine unless you go direct (to be fair I don't have an account so use bookmarks and visit things manually), as well as other video sites and the like. Quite nice being able to search for things I want to read about without having Google or the others pretend to be my father.
Results generally pretty good -- I search for all manner of things from news (though I seldom use news search) to old tech articles to science journals to patents to local restaurants to government websites (US and UK mostly) to shopping websites...
I usually find myself having to refine a search a whole bunch of times, don't know if I did it more or less with this one but hey.
Not as nice as an external alternative to internal gbatemp search but I actually like the internal engine and it still gets most things I want.
Image search generally did what I needed, and was not littered with spam if I put CC0 in the engine to get myself some nice to use imagery.
Usually pretty fast. Tended to spit things back at me relevant to the UK rather than US.
If it has been a while since you last gave it a go I might actually suggest it.
https://duckduckgo.com/
Fancy search operators
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/
Chrome
https://help.duckduckgo.com/desktop/chrome/?redir=1
Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/
Pale Moon has it by default
Edge
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/desktop/microsoft-edge/
Safari
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/desktop/safari/
Would install it for a client or my grandad as well.
Had a great time. Didn't find myself reaching for an alternative during it.
Right click and link/image grab in image search actually works without needing a script to stop the stupid auto replace or visit the site in question.
Can find channels, concepts and sites that were blacklisted because they offended someone's sensibilities along the line and thus don't appear in general Google any more, or the internal engine unless you go direct (to be fair I don't have an account so use bookmarks and visit things manually), as well as other video sites and the like. Quite nice being able to search for things I want to read about without having Google or the others pretend to be my father.
Results generally pretty good -- I search for all manner of things from news (though I seldom use news search) to old tech articles to science journals to patents to local restaurants to government websites (US and UK mostly) to shopping websites...
I usually find myself having to refine a search a whole bunch of times, don't know if I did it more or less with this one but hey.
Not as nice as an external alternative to internal gbatemp search but I actually like the internal engine and it still gets most things I want.
Image search generally did what I needed, and was not littered with spam if I put CC0 in the engine to get myself some nice to use imagery.
Usually pretty fast. Tended to spit things back at me relevant to the UK rather than US.
If it has been a while since you last gave it a go I might actually suggest it.
https://duckduckgo.com/
Fancy search operators
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/
Chrome
https://help.duckduckgo.com/desktop/chrome/?redir=1
Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/
Pale Moon has it by default
Edge
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/desktop/microsoft-edge/
Safari
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/desktop/safari/
Would install it for a client or my grandad as well.