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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone Know of Search Superior to Google?
Date: 12 Jun 2025 23:56:21 GMT
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:20:40 -0400, Joel wrote:

> % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Farley Flud wrote:
> 
>>> I have tried the alternatives to Google search but they all come up
>>> with inferior results.
>>> 
>>> In spite of its evil, grubbing nature, Google search results remain
>>> the best.
>>> 
>>> Why, tell me why, cannot anyone else do better?
>>> 
>>edge
> 
> 
> That would be Bing, not the browser itself.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources

I believe them when they say they use other sources but in my experience 
the DuckDuckGo results look a lot like Bing. I use Brave which has 
switched to its own search engine. It has improved quite a bit but at 
times I do go to Google for a second opinion. 

A problem I have with all of them is getting past recent events. For 
example I was looking for a reference to an accident that killed a family 
of five maybe 15 years ago. The road in question has had a lot of fatal 
accidents so good luck getting past the last three or four years.