I've had a pretty positive experience with DuckDuckGo.  Rarely opened a tab for www.google.co.nz, but often-enough opened a tab for maps.google.co.nz

Dynamic:

 

I've had a pretty positive experience with DuckDuckGo.  Rarely opened a tab for www.google.co.nz, but often-enough opened a tab for maps.google.co.nz

 

I'm giving DDG a go (from Firefox). However I want it to use Google for maps. I can't see where in Firefox or DDG where to specify the maps engine?

I like Lycos, metacrawler, yahoo, altavista and Infoseek.

oh wait, I’m in the wrong decade…

search engines are what you make them… learn search terms “+ & etc etc “ and you won’t care what you use…

obviously, scroll past the sponsored, paid and results which you know are skewed,.

Goosey:

 

I like Lycos, metacrawler, yahoo, altavista and Infoseek.

 

oh wait, I’m in the wrong decade…

 

 

 

search engines are what you make them… learn search terms “+ & etc etc “ and you won’t care what you use…

 

obviously, scroll past the sponsored, paid and results which you know are skewed,.

 

I know how to give search engine tips. I want one that I don't need to scroll past anything and that takes me to the link it says it is not something else

johno1234:

 

Dynamic:

 

I've had a pretty positive experience with DuckDuckGo.  Rarely opened a tab for www.google.co.nz, but often-enough opened a tab for maps.google.co.nz

 

 

I'm giving DDG a go (from Firefox). However I want it to use Google for maps. I can't see where in Firefox or DDG where to specify the maps engine?

 

I've not tried to link the two, and simply have a bookmark to Google Maps in my browser.

I primarily use DDG. 

There's also https://lite.duckduckgo.com if you want a lightweight page. 

I have been using DuckDuckGo for a while now and find it really good.

DuckDuckGo for me

also bangs are excellent. For example, want to search Google? Just do !google followed by your search term. Google maps? !gmaps followed by your search term. And yes, even works with Geekzone by doing !geekzone 😊 (edit: no, that's not an active bang... I'm drunk).

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

Quite impressed with Qwant. Recommended by the Vivaldi crew. 

cddt:

 

I primarily use DDG. 

 

There's also https://lite.duckduckgo.com if you want a lightweight page. 

 

And there's the non-javascript https://html.duckduckgo.com/ if you don't want it as light as the lite version. ;) 

johno1234:

 

I know how to give search engine tips. I want one that I don't need to scroll past anything and that takes me to the link it says it is not something else

 

Take a look at this clip. I'm pretty sure it's exactly what you are looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlNb2ZPZdc

I've just switched to Kagi.  $5USD a month at the moment.

The search is very good, very accurate. Reminds me of the Google of old, not full of bollocks.  So it shows it _can_ be done.

I mean these days a lot of things I want to know (how do I blow away a Wireguard interface on Linux and start again, for example) can be answered by Claude/ChatGippyTitty etc.

LTT did quite a good video about this last year. Most of the de-googling ends up being a compromise between getting rid of Google, and convenience. Everyone's threshold is different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaMc64IAC8g

@michaelmurfy:

 

And yes, even works with Geekzone by doing !geekzone 😊

 

You're drunk.

traderstu:

 

johno1234:

 

I know how to give search engine tips. I want one that I don't need to scroll past anything and that takes me to the link it says it is not something else

 

 

Take a look at this clip. I'm pretty sure it's exactly what you are looking for

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlNb2ZPZdc

 

That is very good!

For those interested, go into your search engine preferences for your browser and and one that puts &udm=14 into the URL to force it to a default web search instead of "All". Avoids piles of video nonsense.

The URL to use is:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14