The Fediverse is unique.

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@adam_wysokinski @Vivaldi

Remember that a lot of people look to us for guidance, so we can help shape the world.

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@rigo @Vivaldi

Even though many of the search engines use the same search back end, there is still a difference in the results and in the level of privacy. It is IMHO great that people use these smaller search engines.

It is also great that there are search engines that build their own index. It is a tough nut to crack, but great to see people trying and I hope they succeed!

In some ways the larger search engines are getting worse each day with more and more auto-generated content dominating the results. Clearly that is not what most of us want, so maybe there is an opening.

I agree with you that early days Google, Alltheweb and Altavista in many ways provided better results than what we see today.

[eghone@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon @Vivaldi Love Kagi !

[missingno@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon @Vivaldi
"You are all individuals!"
Everyone in unison: "We are all individuals."
Me: "Not me!" *using Google*

[eeeee]

@[email protected]
Those 'statistics' look suspect ...
Could really one whole percent of people say they like Bing !

[reflex@retrogaming.social]

@jon @Vivaldi Any particular reason Vivaldi changed my search engine to startpage without consent? Was rather surprising.

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@reflex @Vivaldi

We used to have a deal with Bing for search, which we no longer do. Thus we changed the default for those users that have never changed their default.

You can change back to Bing or you can select one of the others. I hope you will select one of the smaller search engines, that we have deals with, such as Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia or Qwant. Yahoo is also an option.

[reflex@retrogaming.social]

@jon @Vivaldi It was a bit jarring to have it change on it's own. I'll set it to duckduckgo as that's what my other browsers are set to. I wish Ecosia returned better results...

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@reflex @Vivaldi

Sorry about that. DuckDuckGo is a good choice. You might want to keep a tab on Ecosia as they continue to evolve as well.

[ve2uwy@mastodon.radio]

@jon @Vivaldi

I prefer DDG ... but ... the results are not as good as teh google ... which is why I also have udm14.org bookmarked. At least I avoid the "AI" trash. Allegedly. Teh google is still an awful company (says the guy with a GMail/Drive account).

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@VE2UWY @Vivaldi

DDG is a good choice, but if you want Google results, you might be able to use Startpage or Ecosia as well.