What search engine does KF use?

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Bing for clearnet crap that's easy to find because it's fairly easy to build up points and get a $5 gift card once every couple of months

Duckduckgo or Yandex for crap I don't want popping up in targeted ads and without political biases

Google for when all else fails or I need to search for an exact term in quotes (because Bing still can't do that, even though it pretends it does by adding a + to the beginning of your query, which doesn't work)
 
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Pissmaster General said:
Bing for clearnet crap that's easy to find because it's fairly easy to build up points and get a $5 gift card once every couple of months

Duckduckgo or Yandex for crap I don't want popping up in targeted ads and without political biases

Google for when all else fails or I need to search for an exact term in quotes (because Bing still can't do that, even though it pretends it does by adding a + to the beginning of your query, which doesn't work)
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Once Offensive Security took over Google Dorks, google lost its appeal for me.
 
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I used to use one of the many searx instances, but lately almost all of them have been crapping out on me by giving me error messages with zero search results.

In case anyone is curious about the various search engines and how good (or bad) they really are, I've been going off of this guide
 
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Duckduckgo or Yandex for crap I don't want popping up in targeted ads and without political biases

Google for when all else fails or I need to search for an exact term in quotes (because Bing still can't do that, even though it pretends it does by adding a + to the beginning of your query, which doesn't work)
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Agree for the most part, I hate Bing with a passion because it rarely ever finds what I need, but DDG is good for finding stuff sans the political bias. I've only recently been hearing more about Yandex, so I may start going that direction soon if it's as good as people say it can be. Though, of course, Google is best for actually finding what you want if it doesn't relate to something the Left-Wing disagrees with. If you're looking for anything slightly edgy, you're only going to find news articles about why "alt-right bad."
 
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DuckDuckGo, because bangs. Best feature for a search engine.
 
I've set up private Searx instance on a spare SBC, which sends queries to other search engines through Tor. Works fine, I think. Maybe later I'll also install YaCy for decentalized search, and integrate it with this Searx.
 
I still use Bing for normie shit because gift cards, but man it's retarded.

-Looking up any game that has major updates that fundamentally change how games work (any live service game) will be worthless to search Bing for, since Bing will keep turning up articles about when the game was launched, even if they're years out of date

-Image search is next to worthless. On the left: Bing; on the right: Google:

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Just look at how many of those on Bing don't even have to do with the meme at all. Every single one on Google is appropriate, and even showed me the one I needed on the 7th picture.

-Even searching for videos takes you to their own little embedded player, not directly to YouTube itself, presumably for their own telemetry. So that's really annoying.

I don't think I need to tell a single soul on the planet that Bing is trash and only really good for gift card farming but I guess if you were wondering if Bing ever got good, the answer is no, no they haven't, not at all.
 
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Tried using duckduckgo to research another KF user (pretty sure he's dead and used his real name), and all the results are cucked and trans-pilled:
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They got better/more relevant once I put quotes around the name, but it's still funny how obviously slanted those search results are.
 
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I use Brave as a default, which is decent if you don't need anything too advanced. For images, mostly Yandex and sometimes Google. Yandex is great for finding the image you want, but the one thing Google actually does better is finding the origin of an image. It's great when I'm going through some files and find a work of art or something else I've saved and don't remember what it is. If I reverse image search a work of art on Yandex, it will turn up a million VK profiles where people have used it as a background or some part as an avatar, but Google has a feature that helps you find the origin that works a good 90% of the time.
 
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I use brave because it has flags to use other search engines. I don't care for the results it returns in many cases, but being able to use a !G to swap over to google, !B to Bing, or !D to Duck Duck Go, gives the flexibility to fill in the gaps If I'm ever unhappy with the results. No search engine is good enough to be a solid provider on its own these days, so a quick swap is perfect.
 
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Is brave search still good? I'm trying to move away from Bing.
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I use Brave as my mine and google as backup (until I finally break habit and use a better one).

Honestly, I really like their Leo AI but trying to look up CVE numbers on Brave sucks shit.

Will type in CVE-69-420 and will get a link for every other goddamn CVE except 69-420.
 
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