Poll What is Your Favorite Search Engine?

[Parkinsond]

google is superior

The only reason for using G is getting random unrelated results to waste my time exploring

 

[Miravi]

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Interesting. It looks like the region setting makes a significant difference here. WindowsLite.net comes up for me.

 

[Parkinsond]

Interesting. It looks like the region setting makes a significant difference here. WindowsLite.net comes up for me.

Used this specific website as a test because G never got it as one of the firest 3-5 results before; this time it did not get it at all!

 

[oldschool]

Tried to search for a specific website using all; the order in search results was as the following:
Google: 16th
Bing: Not in the first 53
DDG: Not in the first 54
Brave: Not in the first 58
Yahoo: Not in the first 56
Yandex: 8th
Ecosia: 4th
Startpage: 1st
Qwant: Not at all
Mojeek: Not at all

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Brave had it as the first item.

Local means Jordanian websites?

I believe it means the local area where you live, e.g. Amman, Aqaba, etc.

I really love that Brave has the "Search with AI" toggle to use the "Ask AI" option on demand. Google sucks with its mandatory Gemini answers.

 

[Parkinsond]

Brave had it as the first item.

I believe it means the local area where you live, e.g. Amman, Aqaba, etc.

I really love that Brave has the "Search with AI" toggle to use the "Ask AI" option on demand. Google sucks and makes AI answers mandatory.

Not for me

Poll Post in thread 'What is Your Favorite Search Engine?'

Sep 30, 2025

After doing away with the suggested autocorrection for "windowslite," Brave Search turned up this site as the first result.

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[simmerskool]

DDG follows Bing; Ecosia and Startpage follow Google, but refined.

I was using DDG, and asked chatGPT and it suggested Startpage was more private than DDG with better searches from google. I've been liking Startpage. (fwiw)

 

[lokamoka820]

I really love that Brave has the "Search with AI" toggle to use the "Ask AI" option on demand. Google sucks with its mandatory Gemini answers.

It's amazing how much better Brave was at finding results related to local content like weather, places, etc. in general than DDG.

 

[oldschool]

I was using DDG, and asked chatGPT and it suggested Startpage was more private than DDG with better searches from google. I've been liking Startpage. (fwiw)

Indeed, I used to use SP. I never liked DDG. Hate the name. Wasn't impressed with results, etc.

 

[Miravi]

I was using DDG, and asked chatGPT and it suggested Startpage was more private than DDG with better searches from google. I've been liking Startpage. (fwiw)

Brave Search has suited me just fine since I picked it up recently, but I'd happily switch over to Startpage, which offers quality results in a sleek package. I should also express kudos for their "anonymous view" web proxy feature.

DDG isn't going to win me over anytime soon. Years ago I used Qwant for a time as well—it's undergone a couple of rebrandings since but hasn't managed to convert me.

 

[lokamoka820]

I just did a quick test between Bing, Brave, DDG and Google, and I'm impressed how much Bing improved, I think it is a main competitor with Google now.

 

[stonjean633]

Google is still my best friend followed by Bing.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Tried to search for a specific website using all; the order in search results was as the following:
Google: 16th
Bing: Not in the first 53
DDG: Not in the first 54
Brave: Not in the first 58
Yahoo: Not in the first 56
Yandex: 8th
Ecosia: 4th
Startpage: 1st
Qwant: Not at all
Mojeek: Not at all

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On Google the site is number 1 in my search result when I am logged in.

Spoiler: Number 1

Number 2 in private tab/not logged in.

Spoiler: Number 2

So, Google is fine in my case

 

[Parkinsond]

On Google the site is number 1 in my search result when I am logged in.

Spoiler: Number 1

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Number 2 in private tab/not logged in.

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So, Google is fine in my case

Tried G again right now; the same results as yours.
But yesterday, results were different.

 

[Divergent]

My workflow is primarily Google-based, and while I use their search engine, I rely more heavily on my dedicated research tools.

 

[Lintianyun Luo]

I am using bing now, i can't use google because gfw, but I think we don't need to pursue extreme privacy, so google or bing or yahoo is enough for us, although brave is better in privacy, it can't compare with google, we need a convenient solution

if you want to keep extremely privacy, i recommend you to use tor with duckduckgo

 

[lokamoka820]

I am using bing now, i can't use google because gfw, but I think we don't need to pursue extreme privacy, so google or bing or yahoo is enough for us, although brave is better in privacy, it can't compare with google, we need a convenient solution

if you want to keep extremely privacy, i recommend you to use tor with duckduckgo

Bing is good these days, but I don't think anyone still uses Yahoo.

 

[TairikuOkami]

DDG, it sucks, but it is easily set in all browsers and with a cloud save. Brave is not there yet and Bing ignores my settings, it shows local results, even when set to be private.

 

[oldschool]

I don't think anyone still uses Yahoo.

My wife isn't even sure which search engine she uses , but it used to be Yahoo only. I just checked and she's using Google, likely because it's the default provider.

 

[lokamoka820]

My wife isn't even sure which search engine she uses , but it used to be Yahoo only. I just checked and she's using Google, likely because it's the default provider.

Just like my family members, they use Google search and Yahoo Mail because these are the services they started using first, they don't know any alternatives, and they don't like trying new things.

 

[Lintianyun Luo]

Bing is good these days, but I don't think anyone still uses Yahoo.

Are you all not use Yahoo anymore? I always thought this was very popular in the United States.
But Bing is really goog now, duckduckgo's search library is use bing's