honestly… duckduckgo.com
you will still get most of the top results, but without all the nonsense.
Their browser is a bit shady and how it shares info with Microsoft / Bing but their search engine is solid.
Stupid name, good search results.
Right, but a microwave is surrounded by a faraday cage, and the cell phone is next to you head. Does that make any difference?
Honestly asking, I have no clue.
It’s that extra crap that kills it for me.
I have all the add-ins, extensions, etc so my experience is fine (and I also just use DuckDuckGo). But I tried searching for something on my parent’s computer with Google… it was like the early 00s with all the crap before the actual results.
I immediately switched their default, but I could not believe it. Like why would you do that to your own site?
The solution that I have been bouncing around is to get the watch for quick use, and then a larger phone to act more as a tablet. Of course this requires me to have multiple devices, which is annoying. But here we are.
But it’s supposed to be the future! I want the full talking spaceship like in Star Trek, not this … “initial learning steps” BS!
I was raised on SciFi and am now mad that I don’t have all the cool made up things from those shows/movies!
Scientist to world: “magic conch is useless in trying to cure cancer.”
News media: “Magic Conch is completely useless!”
I want to believe this, but given how wonky AI bots have proven to be as of late, I can’t help but think that you can cut this number down by several million