I’m kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it’s 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they’re useless. It’s always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can’t come up with one since… you know that’s why I’m asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that’d be great too!

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      I tried it but unfortunately it’s very similar to Google search just without the trackers, and sometimes the results are a bit worse (worth it for not having the trackers though)

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        This has been my experience as well with duckduckgo. I want to like it, and I do have it as my default search but I often end up searching Google after unsatisfactory results from duckduckgo.

        Thanks for asking this question!

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          My process is:

          • Search DDG
          • If that’s not satisfactory (it is IME about 80% of the time) prefix with !sp to search googles index proxied by start page
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            I don’t even think I’ve ever heard the word “propitiatory” used so TIL from my own error

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          Sorry, I must’ve mixed up Start Page and DDG and/or Google and Bing. Though wasn’t aware that they did that much indexing of their own.

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            Yeah it seems way more smaller search engines use Bing than Google, I’m not sure why but I’m guessing either API costs or privacy agreements? DDG did get into hot water a couple of years ago over this because Bing was serving ads which were not private and were potentially profiling DDG users. No company is perfect all the time but they did promptly attempt to fix the issue. I do like them as far as tech firms go.