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Yes, since a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823.

> Any pro tips on how to google

Pro tip: try DuckDuckGo, https://ddg.gg.

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Google's search quality has definitely gotten worse, but DuckDuckGo is still worse than Google. I have DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but occasionally will Google something that DuckDuckGo can't find and Google has it on the first page.

I have this exact same usage pattern. I try to use Firefox and DDG exclusively but when a site borks or the search results are unusable in DDG, it's back into the Google ecosystem with me.

Yeah, ditto for search.brave.com. It's fine but sometimes Google is just more creative or accurate in what it returns.

Another pro tip: try Brave Search instead (search.brave.com).

Still being refined, and it will take a while to be fully-competitive with Google, but the text search results are strong and, unlike DDG, it's an independent search index that doesn't rely on Bing.

ddg is bing. So why would I bother with it?

1. It hides personal information from Bing.

2. DDG has its own search crawler (and it's getting larger, the more people use it).

You can also try SearX.

Main search is powered by bing, lets not kid ourselves. ddg is not answering complex queries by using its own crawled index.

Yes, not yet. I hope it will, when it has enough resources.

It's not "just Bing", but that also doesn't matter if people are happy with the search results. Honestly Bing has gotten pretty good, and nobody really noticed.

It comes up every time DDG is mentioned that it's "Just Bing". It could be made using an early beta version of AltaVista and rejected NetBSD patches for all I care. The results are pretty good regardless of how they're produced.

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