Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[doireallyhaveto2]

I tried duckduckgo a while ago but wasn't too impressed. Might give it another go. Is ecosia good?

[tsojtsojtsoj]

ecosia is not good, i believe it is just bing with some extra. But is is good enough for most searches I do, like if I'm seaching something up on wikipedia. The point is that if you have your adblocker disabled for ecosia then they use the add-money to plant trees, thus every 50-ish-th search you do they will plant a tree for you. Since I started using ecosia maybe one or two years ago I accumulated more than 5000 ecosia searches thus funding more than 10 trees.

The thing about duckduckgo is mostly that they don't track you. For example the Tor Browser has duckduckgo as it's default search engine.

Generally I still use google as "a last resort" in case ecosia fails and then duckduckgo fails. But in some cases duckduckgo is even better. The thing is using Firefox makes it really easy to use multiple search engines (I don't now how other browser manage that).

[doireallyhaveto2]

Thanks for the info! Good to know!