which search machines are good.

[wolftrax]

I noticed that when I use duckduckgo things that google usually find I cant find using duckduckgo. I have some links to certain articles that I can find with google but not duckduckgo. however I dont really like google because of privacy issues so I need to switch between some search engines to search the net. and avoid googles tracking to that extend its possible.

[jeremy31]

Moved to Cafe, not an Ubuntu support issue

[poorguy]

I use DuckDuckGo and find most things I search for most of the time.

When I can't find what I'm searching for using DuckDuckGo than I use Google which I have bookmarked.

No one search engine is going to be 100% and find everything.

I'm amazed at what I can find using Dillo browser and Midori browser.

[EuclideanCoffee]

I've used Qwant and was happy until I moved over to Google.

I simply don't use Ubuntu for privacy reasons and was curious about other options.

You may want to see this resource.

https://www.privacytools.io/providers/search-engines/

[mastablasta]

I noticed that when I use duckduckgo things that google usually find I cant find using duckduckgo. I have some links to certain articles that I can find with google but not duckduckgo. however I dont really like google because of privacy issues so I need to switch between some search engines to search the net. and avoid googles tracking to that extend its possible.

google finds it because you visited the article before and google knows about that. so it would often find what it thinks you are looking for. which can be a problem if that is not what you are trying to find. i was trying to find information about end of the world movie (it was probably a straight to DVD or TV movie). google kept suggesting the blockbuster 2012 film and This is the end (comedy). they took many of the search pages. and it was not what i was looking for. it couldn't find the correct one even after adding some keywords from the plot or one of the actors. google only thought this is what i mean based on my previous search and based on search by others.

duck duck go found the correct one.

[wolftrax]

thank you. its a certain name I am looking for. its legal matter so I want to be prepared and google tend to show the most results. I am using duckduck go as of now because of privacy issues.

[guiverc]

I use startpage.com by default. I do use duckduckgo.com also, but usually startpage.com. There are times where I do need to use google (ubuntu news use gdocs; very rarely i use it to search for other results, but that'll be in a different 'google' use only browser)

[QIII]

Google dwarfs all others in their crawling and indexing. It's not really even a close contest.

[mastablasta]

Google dwarfs all others in their crawling and indexing. It's not really even a close contest.

that is true. but it also often gives wrong results or filters results in a wrong way. so the first hits are not necessarily the correct ones. and the first results are often "sponsored" and can be wrong for that reason.

so "install java on ubuntu" might bring up the old website with non functioning PPA in first few hits. it should sort results based on time. i also find out when i search for errors i get very old and irrelevant results on the top. they could be misleading to users for example.

[wolftrax]

that is true. but it also often gives wrong results or filters results in a wrong way. so the first hits are not necessarily the correct ones. and the first results are often "sponsored" and can be wrong for that reason.

so "install java on ubuntu" might bring up the old website with non functioning PPA in first few hits. it should sort results based on time. i also find out when i search for errors i get very old and irrelevant results on the top. they could be misleading to users for example.

thank you. this was useful information.