It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      People are going to see this, so here’s the answer.

      Logitech’s web UI is crap. See that tiny, unlabled triangle on the list on the left?

      Click it and pick your OS version.

      Then you get the download.

      • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        …huh. TIL.

        The last time I had to download the unifying software it was more obvious than that.

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    6 days ago

    Wow reading through these comments makes me a little sad. Most people still don’t know jack about search engines or how they differ under the hood, or eve just how to add them into your browser search bar. Looks like all the effort I put into that that simple search engine guide was in vain.

    • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Well that was a spectacular read in your link, keep calling attention to it, 'cause it’s gonna be a constant drip-drip-drip of people finding out. I didn’t know, but starting today, I’m gonna experiment with SearXNG as my primary search engine, see how that goes!

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Thanks

      Yacy seems to be what I want but I am worried about the content that would get indexed

    • soapyplasm@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Thanks for making such an interesting guide! I’ll read through this and hopefully learn more about search engines and what would work the best for me.

  • devilish666@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    7 days ago

    Softonic be like every app you want we have it, even the non exist ones. But once you installed our apps you already have made a pact with the devil

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          I’ll be honest, DDG has never blown me away and I’ve been using it for roughly 5 years. It’s not awful or anything, but maybe once every month or two I need to resort to Google because it can’t find something. I’m absolutely willing to sacrifice some quality for privacy in the general case, though.

          • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            Yes, it has never been the best in terms of relevance or depth of index. But lately when I do searches for something like “cherry shrimp aquarium water quality requirements” I’ve been overwhelmed by AI-written SEO blogs. Where google still pulls up results from forums, reddit, other relevant actual humans talking.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    It’s gone really downhill ever since co-pilot

    It’s hard to call it better than Google now

  • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    Stract.com open search engine a guy built in his basement. It is not perfect but feels like Google used to in the late 90s, when you had real results

  • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    7 days ago

    Not to defend Bing in anyway, but I typed logitech unifying software and the first result is the download page on logitechs site.

    I am not doubting you, but why is it so different for me? I see non of the ??? section, no ads, just a link at the top like you would expect.

    What are you using or doing different?

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      26·
      7 days ago

      Do you have uBlock or some similar ad blocker installed?

      EDIT: I went and looked myself. I do have an ad-blocker installed. I don’t see the ad. But I do see more noise than OP (desktop, Firefox):

      • There’s a set of steps at the top left telling me to download and install the software, which is what OP was complaining about.

      • At the top right, there’s a large, blue button with a link that guesses incorrectly that I want to know about Logitech Unifying Receiver Pairing, and just sends me to another Bing search.

      • Beneath that, there are a list of several questions that Microsoft incorrectly thinks I might be wanting to task and their answers.

      • Then there are two “Explore more” links linking me to pages describing how to pair with the software. One appears to link to “logi.com” with apparently is a Logitech business support page that links to the software, albeit only the Mac version, which I’d guess isn’t what OP wanted.

      • Back on the left, I have what appears to be an AI spam question-answer site at thewindowsclub.com and another page on “how to unify” at robots.net.

      • Beneath that, I have a link to the Logitech download section. So it’s in my top results and on my laptop, visible on the first screen of results, though beneath some not-really-desirable stuff.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      The screenshot is from Microsoft Edge running in Windows 10 (virtual machine) with no/little browsing history and no account connected. I’m hypothesizing here, but maybe these are the reasons:

      • You don’t see the ??? section because you’re not on Edge. Bing AI only works on edge (it checks your user agent)
      • You don’t see the ad because you have an adblocker
      • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Just tried it in Edge, with no ad block.

        The first link was what I was searching for. None of that extra stuff showed up. The ad (for something unrelated) was in a column in the right.

        There is no account associated, little browsing history. This machine was completely wiped 2 weeks ago.

        I think the difference is, I am not in the US.

  • Qixotika@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    5 days ago

    Here’s the UBlock filters for a better experience, on this day, 12-9-2024. Sadly, the results are still bing results, and the MS data vacuum is still in effect. (there’s a chance this get’s filtered cause of all the urls, so if there’s nothing below, oh well, woulda been nice, huh.

    edit, image now