pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo “alliance thing” (can’t remember what it’s officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).
Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is…yeah.
Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they’re all the same except with those two you’re not going to get the AI slop or ads.
I hate the bing-yahoo search engine. On DDG, searching for news is absolute garbage.
Ask it to check latest news like “Donald Trump really make AI videos of Obama as Gorilla” and the News Search found 1 news article and 20 posts from a five years ago. But on Google News, it’s like 50 articles.
yeah I don’t bother with DDG anymore. used to love it but now it’s just hot garbage. Now I just use a 4get instance and for news just use the brutalist report and spike.news
There’s a UK search engine called Mojeek that has its own index. I won’t claim it’s results are as good as Google/Bing/Kagi etc but if you want to use an alternative it exists. I typically start all my searches there and then transition to DDG if I can’t find what I’m looking for.
Yahoo uses the bing index, and aside from Google, Bing, and Yandex the only other larger english general search engine with its own index is Mojeek.
Seirdy’s blog has more info on this along with reviews of more niche engines, and there is also the search engine map if you want something more visual.
I would love to support Mojeek for its independence, but I tried using it for a while and I could rarely ever get accurate and reliable search results, especially for queries involving specific locations, medical queries, queries related to recent events, or queries involving non-English languages.
AFAIK there are only like 4 search engines in the world:
Virtually every search site uses one or a combination of these.
pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo “alliance thing” (can’t remember what it’s officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).
Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is…yeah.
Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they’re all the same except with those two you’re not going to get the AI slop or ads.
my self hosted surprise of last year was a searxng container. i will never go back!!
I hate the bing-yahoo search engine. On DDG, searching for news is absolute garbage.
Ask it to check latest news like “Donald Trump really make AI videos of Obama as Gorilla” and the News Search found 1 news article and 20 posts from a five years ago. But on Google News, it’s like 50 articles.
yeah I don’t bother with DDG anymore. used to love it but now it’s just hot garbage. Now I just use a 4get instance and for news just use the brutalist report and spike.news
There’s a UK search engine called Mojeek that has its own index. I won’t claim it’s results are as good as Google/Bing/Kagi etc but if you want to use an alternative it exists. I typically start all my searches there and then transition to DDG if I can’t find what I’m looking for.
Yahoo uses the bing index, and aside from Google, Bing, and Yandex the only other larger english general search engine with its own index is Mojeek. Seirdy’s blog has more info on this along with reviews of more niche engines, and there is also the search engine map if you want something more visual.
I would love to support Mojeek for its independence, but I tried using it for a while and I could rarely ever get accurate and reliable search results, especially for queries involving specific locations, medical queries, queries related to recent events, or queries involving non-English languages.
Kagi has its own search engine and internal web indexing:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html#search-sources
Yep, this is what I use.
There are no Chinese search engines?