Poll What is Your Favorite Search Engine?

[lokamoka820]

Are you all not use Yahoo anymore? I always thought this was very popular in the United States.

This was the case in the past, but now other providers are much better.

 

[monkeylove]

The video settings are no longer saved in Google in PC. For example, go to the video tab of Google and search for a video, and then in Tools, select Long (20+ min) in Any duration and High quality in Any quality. Search for another video by entering the title in the search box of the same browser tab, and the Tools settings are not preserved.

Is there a front-end that fixes this problem?

 

[Parkinsond]

The video settings are no longer saved in Google in PC. For example, go to the video tab of Google and search for a video, and then in Tools, select Long (20+ min) in Any duration and High quality in Any quality. Search for another video by entering the title in the search box of the same browser tab, and the Tools settings are not preserved.

Is there a front-end that fixes this problem?

If your browser settings involve clearing cookies on exit, add google to exclusions.

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[Sorrento]

Firefox don't make it easy to add Start for example as a default search it seems you have to add an extension which is a bit mad? At the moment I now have Start on Firefox & Brave on Brave

 

[lokamoka820]

If your browser settings involve clearing cookies on exit, add google to exclusions.

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This will not work because it is reset in the same session, so keeping it will not help.

 

[Parkinsond]

This will not work because it is reset in the same session, so keeping it will not help.

Must be a bug; when I add exclusion for Google search or Startpage, the saved settings are kept unchanged.

 

[lokamoka820]

Must be a bug; when I add exclusion for Google search or Startpage, the saved settings are kept unchanged.

He's talking about search filters, not search settings. Google may have changed how search filters work. I haven't used that to determine if it's changed, but I followed his steps using Google search on Firefox and got the same result.

 

[Sorrento]

Where would we be without info from other users???

 

[monkeylove]

FWIW, Bing and others that use it, like Ecosia, preserve the video settings, but I think there are more search results with Google.

 

[lokamoka820]

FWIW, Bing and others that use it, like Ecosia, preserve the video settings, but I think there are more search results with Google.

Thanks for the info, Bing is now very good compared to Google (probably better for users in countries where Bing can display very detailed local content).

 

[lokamoka820]

@Sorrento I want to like your post, but there is no like button, even refreshing the page didn't solve the problem.

 

[Jonny Quest]

@Sorrento I want to like your post, but there is no like button, even refreshing the page didn't solve the problem.

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It's a bit of a know issue, which I posted on the Site Issues & Feedback thread.

By Staff Post in thread 'Site Issues and Feedback'

Oct 12, 2025

@Jack With so many pages of error reports, time to consider a rollback ? Or are new messages not portable back to the previous version ?

Including this, which I've had happen before.
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[lokamoka820]

It's a bit of a know issue, which I posted on the Site Issues & Feedback thread.

By Staff Post in thread 'Site Issues and Feedback'

Oct 12, 2025

@Jack With so many pages of error reports, time to consider a rollback ? Or are new messages not portable back to the previous version ?

Including this, which I've had happen before.
Post in thread 'Question storage media' Question - Question storage media

• Jonny Quest

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Yeah, I think @simmerskool was the first to mention this error, but I ran into it today.

 

[Parkinsond]

FWIW, Bing and others that use it, like Ecosia, preserve the video settings, but I think there are more search results with Google.

Ecosia uses Google; DDG uses Bing.

 

[Morro]

I have been trying Qwant for a while now, but just now I saw in the tracker and adblocker from Vivaldi, something about Qwant. (Unless something else is causing it, but I doubt that at the moment. On their website they advertise that they have zero tracking of anything.

Qwant Search - About Qwant

Qwant Search : The European search engine that combines performance and ethics.

about.qwant.com

However, I did a few searches today after having cleaned the list from Vivaldi Blocker, so the results are from only today.

If they really not track anything then what am I seeing there Qwant. Do not get me wrong, I am not surprised as much as this post might make it look, but do not claim zero tracing if you still do it. (Be honest about it for once.)

 

[lokamoka820]

I have been trying Qwant for a while now, but just now I saw in the tracker and adblocker from Vivaldi, something about Qwant. (Unless something else is causing it, but I doubt that at the moment. On their website they advertise that they have zero tracking of anything.

Qwant Search - About Qwant

Qwant Search : The European search engine that combines performance and ethics.

about.qwant.com

However, I did a few searches today after having cleaned the list from Vivaldi Blocker, so the results are from only today.

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If they really not track anything then what am I seeing there Qwant. Do not get me wrong, I am not surprised as much as this post might make it look, but do not claim zero tracing if you still do it. (Be honest about it for once.)

Interesting, I just tried searching for weather using Qwant search and uBlock Origin blocked 25 items, but I only searched for the word "weather". Doesn't it need to know my location to give me a detailed result? Is this tracking?

 

[Morro]

Interesting, I just tried searching for weather using Qwant search and uBlock Origin blocked 25 items, but I only searched for the word "weather". Doesn't it need to know my location to give me a detailed result? Is this tracking?

Personally, I think it is, but who knows what organizations like them come up with to still get information about you. And perhaps the IP is enough nowadays?

 

[Templarware]

Results for in depth and rabbit hole questions, Google.
Visuals/inferface, Bing.
Privacy, DuckDuckGo.

Sadly, I just end up having to use Google fro the better results. I have yet to try DuckDuckGo now that it has AI though.

 

[lokamoka820]

Personally, I think it is, but who knows what organizations like them come up with to still get information about you. And perhaps the IP is enough nowadays?

I think what they mean by private search engine is that they don't track your personal data or sell your data, but they need to get some data to work properly, and they might show some ads that are not related to you, that's how I understand it, it might be true or false.

 

[monkeylove]

Ecosia uses Google; DDG uses Bing.

According to their help page, Ecosia uses Bing, Google, and EUSP.

The results are weird, though. I used a friend's name in quotation marks, and there are a few results in Google and Bing but none in Ecosia.

However, when I look for the title of a movie with a long duration, there are none in Google but Ecosia shows one.