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Why people use google in this day and age? 🤷♂️
I hope you are asking that rhetorically.
But if the question is serious, its because very many people grew up with google and got really good at using it. Got dependent on the certain idiosyncrasies of how Google presents its results. Got entangled in multiple other google services that make results more relevant.
I have my entire career because I was (and am) better than a lot of people at googling things. I hate what Google has become and I do have DDG as my primary search tool on my phone now. But it's really difficult to completely jettison google search and I do still use it fairly regularly. Even though they seem insistent on making their results as trash as possible.
If anything its at least pushed me to start thinking of search engines as tools, and that regularly using more than one might be a good thing.
I don't use anything that's made or based on the US. Serious redflag!
Eh. I guess I understand some suspicion, but for better or worse a very large portion of the internet is US-centric. It's pretty difficult to use any major internet content and avoid US based stuff entirely.
Also from what I've seen, while these companies may be US-based they 100% have their own profits prioritized over any national interests. I'd be surprised to learn of any kind of overt nationalism biased towards the US from Google, for instance.
"americabad"
I stopped using google as my main search engine about 4 months ago. Duckduckgo.com is comparable in most ways, except things like maps are a bit less visually enjoyable to use.
Honest question from someone ignorant on this topic -- what do you recommend for a search engine other than Google?
Startpage, Qwant, Swisscow, SearX
If these don't work for you, try duckduckgo but I don't recommend it as its made and based in the US.
Any app thats developed and hoated in US is a serious threat. Use any app which are developed and hosted in the EU .