(In your opinion)
I’m using DDG, but I’m not satisfied with it. The quality of answers is subpar and I find myself switching to google or LLMs when I’m researching some things where community opinion matter (for some reason reddit and forums are undervalued by DDG algorithm).
I could try daily driving alternatives, but I know I will be biased and it will noticably slow down my workflows.
Just ask me. I will tell you.
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize the best search engine you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Ok. Is there any website or forum for people who are making their own accessories for board games?
Not just tabletop gaming or 3D printing, I’m looking for something with the emphasis on board games first and foremost.
Yes, there is.
LMAO
Qwant
SearxNG is the only way I know of to get reasonably good results.
Altavista circa 1999. Google stole the crown and was good for a long while after that, but it’s intentionally worse now than Altavista was back then.
If someone like DuckDuckGo could get their heads out of their cloacas long enough to fix the + and - features for “must contain” and “must not contain”, they could easily steal that crown.
I can’t tell if I genuinely agree or if it’s the nostalgia goggles doing the thinking.
I mean I certainly prefer seach where I get a little blurb giving me an idea what the link is to. Im not sure I want to go back to alta vista or dogpile.
These aren’t what I would call ‘best,’ just supplemental when the best isn’t cutting it.
Marginalia is pretty decent. I like that it lets you specifically search forums, wikis, blogs, or academia.
https://wiby.me/ is good for exploring old-school sites. This is more of an answer to “how do I ‘surf the web’ in 2026?” than what you’re probably asking for. (The search itself is very keyword-y with no attempt to guess at relevance.)
Ooh, thanks for the tip on Wiby, gonna try that out later :-)
Ooh, thanks for the tip on Wiby, gonna try that out later :-)
i kinda like google the most cus its the most comprehensive but in reality the pages im missing from qwant are just slop i wouldnt need anyway
qwant also doesnt spy on you and is hosted in europe so im going with qwant as my answer :)
hoping they can expand their own search index as much as possible as soon as possible so they can ditch bing for good
yandex for images. every search engine sucks in different ways for everything else. google is good but gives me the spyware cramps.
oh and wikipedia is good for scientific topics.
Startpage is alright
Kagi. People pay for it for a reason.
Used to use Brave, but I read some shady stuff and hate the crypto. I’ve switched to Startpage, as far as I know they’re doing good and gets the job done for me.
On ddg I just type reddit when I want community stuff, but I know what you mean. I also still find myself using google for local stuff because yelp fucking sucks.
Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo is just Bing. And Google has an exclusive agreement with Reddit for indexing current threads made 2 years ago or after.
ecosia seemed to work slightly better than ddg for me recently, but there’s some controversies regarding their greenwashing and union busting
qwant seems to be pretty good but they geoblock specific countries including mine. it works through a vpn tho
startpage is just google
etools.ch is quite nice, even works without javascript but somehow they’re not so popular…
yandex is decent quality wise, but i get endless captchas from them for some reason
I host SearXNG on my home server, and I configured it to provide better results than Google.
I tried Kagi. It’s nice, but the price is a bit high for a search engine.
How do you “configure it to provide better results than Google”? Not trying to call you out, but I assume your measure of what is better is highly subjective. If it would be down to simple config changes to get quality superior to Google search, OP wouldn’t have to ask this question.
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Depends on what you are searching. DuckDuckGo can be great, if you can use the shortcuts that search directly on other Sites.
