I feel like it’s dying and the people I know say they use Google or duck duck go.
I use Google with DuckDuckGo as a backup if I ever wanted to search something that google likes to censor (like “how to downloading a car”).
DuckDuckGo
Bing Rewards is great, out of the two, at least Microsoft pays me for my info.
If you don’t think bing rewards are that great, you can always tell Microsoft to send a small amount of money to a charity instead of getting the rewards.
Yes, I use Bing. I got sick of Google’s ads, not to mention having to click through two pages of useless boosted links. Bing is quicker and cleaner.
I host and use SearXNG at home. It’s a search engine aggregator that combines results from multiple search engines (including Bing). It also doesn’t track your searches.
There are some hosted instances you can use as well, but I recommend hosting it yourself if you can.
Hosted instances: https://searx.space/
GitHub link: https://github.com/searxng/searxng
It’s the default browser whenever I use Edge, but that’s about it.
Duckduckgo actually uses Bing for search results. Unless something changed.
Largely true, though the full answer is a bit more nuanced.
Bing is pretty good for general searching. I’ve been mostly using it as my primary. I actually really love Bing Chat for this as well - as a langchain LLM, it is able to search for sources before answering, so it’s less likely to hallucinate than ChatGPT alone (which only has the sources it was trained on.) However, one should always double check the sources Bing provides as occasionally it misinterprets when restating from what it has found.
When I want technical results which may contain specific errors in quotes, or technical documentation reference for something, I often find myself moving back to Google. Most recently was a very specific component I was researching in quotes - Bing found zero results, Google found one reference to it (and that ended up being enough for me to understand it.)
I believe part of this is related to the lengthy user profile Google almost certainly has on me, in which it knows very well how to fine tune my results based on what I click on. If Bing is doing the same, it will hopefully improve over time for my very specific queries.
I use DuckDuckGo. Oddly, though, I find that results on searches for specific Linux issues I may be running into are almost better on Google. Given the number of people here saying they get better results with something other than Google, I’m curious if anyone else has had similar or contradictory experiences with Linux troubleshooting searches.
I would love to use Bing, but it doesn’t want to load the homepage on my shitty rural internet. Unless there’s a better version that doesn’t clog up the homepage with images.
I do. I use several search engines, but depending on the topic, Bing returns accurate results, especially since they integrated Bing Chat (their AI).
Google a) is littered with ads, sponsored and overly SEOified results and b) has too much dominance.
So I use Bing, Ecosia (which uses Bing) and a number of other search engines.
Same here. It costs me more seconds to mentally filter out the Google Ads.
Most of my searches are combined with wiki, reddit or some other keyword to help find the result I am looking for.
I need to scroll less with bing to get to the first wiki article.
I also like bingGPT for the more advanced queries.
Some of my devices have Bing as default, otherwise DuchDuckGo or Google.
I use duckduckgo which uses bing to search but that cause it the default in tor and brave search not being able to search images and videos
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I was using bing for a little, switched to DuckDuckGo and now I’m using Kagi. I used the free trial and it was pretty sweet. Just seeing if the $5 a month plan is usable for me. If not I’ll probably switch to a different search engine.
I feel like Google already has a good idea of what I usually search as a programmer, so I don’t really see any reason to leave that.
