Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn’t see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
    11·
    6 months ago

    I’m just annoyed by the regions issues, you’ll get pretty biased results depending in what region you select.
    If you try to search for something specific to a region with other selected you’ll find sometime empty results, which shows you won’t get relevant results about a search if you don’t properly select the region.

    Probably this is more obvious with non technical searches, for example my default region is canada-en and if I try “instituto nacional electoral” I only get a wiki page, an international site and some other random sites with no news, only when I change the region I get the official page ine.mx and news. For me this means kagi hides results from other regions instead of just boosting the selected region’s ones.

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
      8·
      6 months ago

      Yeah that drives me nuts too. Shopping results for fuckin Home Depot? I’m in Europe you stupid search engine

    • 30p87@feddit.de
      2·
      6 months ago

      And searching for a german word always brings up dictionaries from german to english, instead of Wikipedia etc.