What is your favorite search engine

[Ravenas]

Call me a MS fanboy, but I prefer using Bing over all other search engines. All of my services are connected, and the search results have been just a relevant as any other prominent search engine I have used.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Everyone knows how much I rail against MS. But I have to give them credit for Bing. It works the most relevant for me in my searches, and my search histories carry over to my Windowsphone.

Also, they actually list which search results were paid for to be in the top results (listing them as advertisements), unlike google, who is in litigation in EU for not being open about that shit.

 

[JunkBear]

Altavista forevaaaaaa !!!!!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

https://encrypted.google.com

I do some obscure searches that lead me to Bing which also dissatisfied. I should probably try another search engine but can't be bothered.

What I don't like about modern search engines is that they promote recent websites over older websites. For example, if there's a keyword that's trending in the last week, the same use of that keyword a month ago vanishes from results. It's like the engines are trying to be "trendy" and "hip" and I hate it.

I wonder if there is a scholarly search engine that ranks results by informational value. Case in point, when you do a search for a Microsoft error code (0x8#######), it would demote all results from answers.microsoft because their informational value is extremely low. When you search for the name of a celebrity or company, it would promote articles like Wikipedia and IMDB and demote tabloid websites ("such & such nude pics leaked!" and I don't give a !@#$). During/after the Aurora Colorado movie theater shooting, it would promote articles about the city of Aurora and attractions in the area instead of the shooting. I think that would be the best search engine for me.

 

[Caring1]

Google
*laughs that Bing is even on the list*

 

[JunkBear]

https://encrypted.google.com

I do some obscure searches that lead me to Bing which also dissatisfied. I should probably try another search engine but can't be bothered.

What I don't like about modern search engines is that they promote recent websites over older websites. For example, if there's a keyword that's trending in the last week, the same use of that keyword a month ago vanishes from results. It's like the engines are trying to be "trendy" and "hip" and I hate it.

I wonder if there is a scholarly search engine that ranks results by informational value. Case in point, when you do a search for a Microsoft error code (0x8#######), it would demote all results from answers.microsoft because their informational value is extremely low. When you search for the name of a celebrity or company, it would promote articles like Wikipedia and IMDB and demote tabloid websites ("such & such nude pics leaked!" and I don't give a !@#$). During/after the Aurora Colorado movie theater shooting, it would promote articles about the city of Aurora and attractions in the area instead of the shooting. I think that would be the best search engine for me.

By "Obsure research" do you mean that you look for hentai porn in your basement in a dark room alone with a dildo fury tail ? .... .Jusk asking!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

By "Obsure research" do you mean that you look for hentai porn in your basement in a dark room alone with a dildo fury tail ? .... .Jusk asking!

Once was a programing question which should have been obvious but I couldn't remember the official phrase I was looking for. It lead me on a wild goose chase across Google and Bing trying to find the answer. The results from both were hopeless. I finally remembered the phrase I was looking for 30-60 minutes after I started searching.

Another example: I knew it was a DirectX feature that "forces the GPU to render to 30/60/90 frames per second where it always rounds down" but searching just ended up with crap about vsync. It was NOT vsync--it behaves very differently from vysnc. It is like adaptive sync (getting a lot of Freesync hits) but it is not adaptive sync either. It wasn't "sync" at all but Google kept feeding me the same rubbish. I probably spent over an hour searching and didn't even find the original article I wanted. AMD's Dynamic Frame Rate Control was trending blocking out all of the Microsoft IDXGISwapChainMedia websites. The latter is more accurate but I still haven't found the website that shows the real world implications of using IDXGISwapChainMedia. Goolge did find a lengthy article on Microsoft's websites about a similar feature but it wasn't to the point and it didn't have a demonstration of the technology.

Both examples are where I knew what the effect was but not the cause. The search engines are hopeless in finding the cause. They operate on keywords and not concepts.

 

[EzioAs]

I prefer Bing. On desktop, it loads beautiful images on the Bing Homepage and on mobile, it's integrated quite well with Windows Phone devices. Plus, I really like Bing's image and video search results better than Google.

 

[basco]

in my paranoia i try not to use google.
so first is duck duck go-but sometimes the results are not very satisfying,then i use
bing. and if this is not good too then i switch to google

 

[qubit]

Google. No brainer.

 

[Drone]

in my paranoia i try not to use google.
so first is duck duck go-but sometimes the results are not very satisfying,then i use
bing. and if this is not good too then i switch to google

It's not paranoia. Google results in 90% are irrelevant, usually it just points to Wikipedia or something like that while real relevant stuff is on the second and sometimes even on the 3rd, 4th or even 5th page. Back in the day Google gave much better results.

DuckDuckGo is pretty cool but unpolished.

 

[Mindweaver]

I"m surprised no one has said ixquick. Of course this list is very limited.

The three I use (Not in any order)

1. Encrypted google
2. DuckDuckGo
3. ixquick