• brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      282·
      11 months ago

      I swear I’m going to capture screenshots of 2-3 dozen searches across DDG & Google, as well as hopefully Bing, Startpage… SearXNG…

      b/c DDG is doodoo while corporate overlord Google is great with Ublock Origin.

      Faithfully perform every search on DDG first in the hopes I can keep the data out of Google’s hands! But !g out half the time.

      —

      Anybody know of a site, app, or TamperMonkey script that’ll search multiple search engines side-by-side?

      In the meantime, one example w/a direct quote from deep inside a Harry Potter book:

    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      Honestly it’s been a yearish since I’ve tried and my memory is shit so I don’t have any specific examples I can give now. In general though the bulk of my searches involve:

      • A local company I need for xyz or a specific type of restaurant
      • Issues/repairs for a specific make/model/year car (I do lots of my own work)
      • Various homelab related things (docker services for xyz)
      • Details about a movie or TV show (sometimes a specific episode)
      • Prices for products and where I can get them (trying to de-Amazon)
      • How to fix xyz in my home

      I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

      • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I find that DDG is terrible at finding anything regionally specific, probably because I’m not in the US. I always get a shitload of US hits and usually some German hits if I try to specify location…neither are useful to me.