• Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    There isn’t a free alternative that works as well, unfortunately. Bing not only has many of the same issues, but has worse results. Since DuckDuckGo makes use of Bing’s API for its results, in addition to lacking features such as date range searches, it is still a step down in terms of the quality of one’s search results. Having switched to Firefox due to Google’s efforts to make unilateral, self-serving changes to Chromium, I’d be only too glad to switch search providers if an alternative provider had a similar number of accurate results.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      i tried bing again on my phone the other day and instead of results it showed me an overlay saying i should use microsoft edge. needless to say, i just closed the tab instead of the overlay and tried the next search engine.