A look at search engines with their own indexes ( seirdy.one )
Most “alternative” search engines to the big three (Google, Bing, Yandex aka GBY) just proxy their results from GBY. I took a look at 30 non-meta search engines with their own crawlers/indexers to find actual alternatives....
Monash University research finds Bing and Ecosia delivered substantially more professionally produced news in the top 50 results compared with Google ( www.theguardian.com )
The director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Associate Professor David Holmes, said the results demonstrated the importance of news media to search engines, with the top search terms clearly reflecting that people were trying to learn more about current affairs topics. “It is in the interests of search...
adventures in de-googling ( www.wavebeem.com )
My problem switching off of gmail is that I’d really like to start moving to an alias-based approach (so, you know, [email protected] for Lemmy emails, etc.) but this then conflates two issues so I solve neither....