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minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down2·10 months agoI swear I’m going to capture screenshots of 2-3 dozen searches across DDG & Google, as well as hopefully Bing, Startpage… SearXNG… b/c DDG is doodoo while corporate overlord Google is great with Ublock Origin. Faithfully perform every search on DDG first in the hopes I can keep the data out of Google’s hands! But !g out half the time. — Anybody know of a site, app, or TamperMonkey script that’ll search multiple search engines side-by-side? In the meantime, one example w/a direct quote from deep inside a Harry Potter book:
minus-squareabhibeckert@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·10 months agoYou know DDG is just a wrapper around Bing right? No point comparing the two.
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoNot entirely true, they have their own index they use to augment/modify the results with. Like the paper linked in this very post shows, actually.
I swear I’m going to capture screenshots of 2-3 dozen searches across DDG & Google, as well as hopefully Bing, Startpage… SearXNG…
b/c DDG is doodoo while corporate overlord Google is great with Ublock Origin.
Faithfully perform every search on DDG first in the hopes I can keep the data out of Google’s hands! But
!gout half the time.—
Anybody know of a site, app, or TamperMonkey script that’ll search multiple search engines side-by-side?
In the meantime, one example w/a direct quote from deep inside a Harry Potter book:
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You know DDG is just a wrapper around Bing right? No point comparing the two.
Not entirely true, they have their own index they use to augment/modify the results with. Like the paper linked in this very post shows, actually.