M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable

renzev@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 1466 points –

It's impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

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Thanks for the tip! I use startpage already, it's pretty good. From what I understand, it uses Google's search index under the hood.

There's also Brave search which (claims to be) privacy friendly and (claims to) have their own independent search index, so you could give that a try as well. I wouldn't say it's better that startpage or google tho

and (claims to) have their own independent search index

AFAIK their index is very small, so they use Bing to supplement it. Most search engines and voice assistants that aren't Google use Bing in some way, since it's the largest search index that has an official public API that anyone can use.

I’ve been using Brave search for a while as a daily driver. It’s usually pretty decent, but I fall back to google when looking for commercial stuff like local stores and products.