• ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Yandex is fantastic for piracy.

    Don’t tell the other instances but I’ve noticed that it indexes Hexbear and I’ve seen Hexbear appear surprisingly high up in search results in Yandex lmao

    • CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yes. It also has been shown that it uses Microsoft trackers making it a total lie that it’s respectful of its user’s privacy. On top of that they openly stated that they would be censoring (by deprioritization, so they say) any sites associated with “Russian disinformation.” And we all know what that means. And really it just plain sucks in terms of how well it works to serve you with results you’re looking for.

      Duckduckgo is a bad search engine. There are plenty of other good options without having to return to google. Examples: Brave seems to be pretty good and uses their own engine while Searx (searxng) is awesome ime and aggregates from a bunch of other engines.

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        2 years ago

        while Searx (searxng) is awesome ime and aggregates from a bunch of other engines

        History doesn’t repeat but it sure as hell rhymes. There was a time in internet history, pre-Google dominance, when the advent of search aggregators ruled the internet landscape.

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      2 years ago

      I tried this search on another bing search engine (ecosia) and my first hit was a success. same with bing itself!

      on duckduckgo, I can confirm the op’s results. Nothing.

      israeli oct 7th documenteary claims “10 year old” killed 50 adults

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    I switched off Duck Duck Go when the Ukraine war started and they proudly began censoring Russian websites. (Tweet, lib news). If they’re gonna do that what’s the point in using them over Google or Bing? Plus they were advertising on the local radio in my tiny shithole town, which seemed like a red flag for a “less corporate” search engine.

    Yandex has been good, mostly glad that it seems better at including the more niche keywords I search instead of ignoring them like Google does

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    I find Yandex to be useful for some topics, but not great at others, similar to Bing and Google.

    Yandex is good for escaping Western imperial news and for piracy.

    Google is better for scientific research (not in general, just compared to these other two sites and definitely worse than the sites directly meant to search for publications).

    Bing is…just different from Google. I guess it’s easier to escape the sponsored posts.