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Google “search” (lemmy.world)
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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does https://startpage.com count?

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not since they got their own crawler which manages to be worse than Google's one.

At least I assume that's what happened. Their results are noticeably worse than they used to be and noticeably worse than a Google search, although that might be because I'm signed in

[–] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aren't they just an alt frontend for Google? Maybe you're having issues with the UI. Most of the results should be the same.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I often search for things with plenty of results on any other search engine and get one or (more commonly) zero results from Startpage. I remember they used to be a proxy for Google. I'm no longer convinced they are.

[–] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I wonder if that could be because your Google results are personalized.