What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding “reddit” or whatever internet community to the results?

  • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It used to use Google search results but they switched to Bing. It is worse than Google.

    That’d be news to me and an ad hoc comparison I just did shows results much closer to Google than Bing with results usually just locally having switched places while on Bing it’s an entirely different order.

    They do(did?) use Bing for mobile search results because daddy Google forced them to not be competitive on the platform they’re most interested in.

    • hitagi (ani.social)@ani.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Now that I’m trying it again, it actually is similar to Google’s results but it filters some of the more useful results I get from Google based on some things I’m searching up.

      We have more broadly incorporated Microsoft Bing into our results, using a unique solution specifically fitted to our privacy promise. Our collaboration with Microsoft also has enabled us to provide a superior mobile experience. You will see benefits like better search suggestions, fewer ads, and greatly improved similar image results, among others.

      https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/12727471498644-What-are-Startpage-s-enhanced-search-results-

      I don’t know of this only applies to the widges or actual search results.