The Fediverse is unique.
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The Fediverse is unique.
My survey asked what your favorite search engine is.
51% said DuckDuckGo, 12% Startpage, 9% Ecosia and 4% Qwant. Only 6% said Google and 1% Bing. 17% said they preferred another search engine, with many mentioning Kagi and Mojeek.
This is quite different from what the market share out there is, which shows how unique you all are here in the Fediverse. You make your own choices and do not follow everyone else. Be proud.
#fediverse #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #Computer #mobile #search #BigTech #Vivaldi @Vivaldi #Mastodon #Google #Microsoft #DuckDuckGo #StartPage #Ecosia #Bing #Qwant
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Adam Wysokińskireplied to Jon S. von Tetzchner last edited by
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Rigo Wenningreplied to Jon S. von Tetzchner last edited by
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Jon S. von Tetzchnerreplied to Rigo Wenning last edited by
I think it is quite clear that Google dominates the search market today with Bing being in 2nd place (excluding some local search engines). This is in line with all reports I have seen.
I think it is great that people here dare to look for something else.
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Rigo Wenningreplied to Jon S. von Tetzchner last edited by
@jon @Vivaldi I'm unsure about the "something else". Because qwant uses the bing-base and many others do to. Startpage is just a front-end to google.
But I agree that many people HERE look at a diversity of engines and that is a good thing. But IMHO none of them really use the full potential of the web, but rather cater to a certain business model.
For the fun: I was admin of a legal altavista in 1997!
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Remember that a lot of people look to us for guidance, so we can help shape the world.
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Jon S. von Tetzchnerreplied to Rigo Wenning last edited by
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.
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Those 'statistics' look suspect ...
Could really one whole percent of people say they like Bing !
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David Fleetwood - RG Adminreplied to Jon S. von Tetzchner last edited by
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Jon S. von Tetzchnerreplied to David Fleetwood - RG Admin last edited by
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.
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Come On Giant Asteroid!replied to Jon S. von Tetzchner last edited by
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).
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