What is your favorite search engine to find solutions?

ricemark20 · 06-26-2014, 05:44 AM

I keep seeing people post to 'just google' a solution. I have found it useful to use duckduckgo.com . If I word it right, the results are at least as good if not better than google.

rtmistler · 06-26-2014, 06:13 AM

I've used webcrawler, google, yahoo, and bing and found google to be the one I use all the time. You can call it habit, but since google does work, I'm almost always not disappointed in the outcome. In fact, the only reason I try other engines is if I'm looking for something very obtuse which I can't find reasonable results on google. Guess what? I don't find any better results on the other engines either.

karim.ouda · 06-26-2014, 08:31 AM

schneidz · 06-26-2014, 08:34 AM

google seems more general, i think duckduckgo provides better results for code fragments (error codes) or anything tecknical related.

every year mozilla auctions the default search engine for the search box in the top-rite of firefox. google is usually the winner donating millions of dollars to the mozilla foundation. most people keep it as the default even though one can easily change the default or add others (such as ddg).

szboardstretcher · 06-26-2014, 08:36 AM

Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/

Ixquick: https://www.ixquick.com/

Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com/

ondoho · 06-26-2014, 10:33 AM

for me it's a privacy issue.

very, very rarely do i resort to google, but usually i use ixquick and duckduckgo, and lots of specialised search engines (i know most of them aren't exactly safe either, but still better than just surrendering to the big g)

oh, and this one: https://lmddgtfy.net/

enine · 06-26-2014, 10:55 AM

I've been trying to find a replacement for Google ever since the back function broke where the search results clear when you go back to Google from the search result you were viewing.

JWJones · 06-26-2014, 11:44 AM

Same as ondoho, it's a privacy issue: either Startpage or DDG for me.

DavidMcCann · 06-26-2014, 11:57 AM

I've been with Duckduckgo since it started. Google used to give me so many useless results, like the time I searched for a shop to buy a bookcase and was directed to suppliers of stable hay-racks.

rokytnji · 06-26-2014, 12:04 PM

http://wellminded.net63.net/

http://www.googlubuntu.com/

http://search.debian.org/

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search engine to find solutions?

Mr. Alex · 06-26-2014, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ricemark20

I keep seeing people post to 'just google' a solution. I have found it useful to use duckduckgo.com . If I word it right, the results are at least as good if not better than google.

I don't see DuckDuckGo being better than Google. People complain Google tracks them and they try to avoid it with other search engines but those are just worse at ranking pages. It's harder with DuckDuckGo to find what you need than with Google, even taking into consideration all the bad things about the last one.

FSCK THAT! · 06-26-2014, 03:35 PM

I use google as my main search engine because I'm just use to it.

astrogeek · 06-26-2014, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by schneidz

google seems more general, i think duckduckgo provides better results for code fragments (error codes) or anything tecknical related.

Agreed - DuckDuckGo has been a pleasant relief from the Google-eyed monster that ate the free web. Dogpile is also pretty good and was my favorite until the Duck waddled onto the scene.

But I miss the days of real search engines that simply showed you what was out there, instead of gate-keeping, pre-crime DRM enforcing, paid listing ad servers...

Anyone remember Excite, HotBot, Lycos? Even old Jeeves was pretty good!

Habitual · 06-26-2014, 04:45 PM

man, LQ, and startpage

in that order.

TobiSGD · 06-26-2014, 05:49 PM

Now that DuckDuckGo also offers image and video search I am a full time user of that search engine. IMHO in almost any case DDG simply provides better results, very rarely I have to use Google if I can't find something with DGG.