Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)
  • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I have switched to DuckDuckgo and while their index is crap, it’s at least has more crap than what Google has.

    DuckDuckgo I believe leases the Bing engine so I am still trying others.

    also now I am using the direct search engines for specific sites… eg ‘@wiki <my search query>’ to use Wikipedias onwn search.

    • riot@fedia.io
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      4 days ago

      I unfortunately really like the image and info widgets that Google shows, when you search for movies, shows and actors. Here's an example, with Keri Russell. Google on the left, DDG on thge right. It saves me time, when I just quickly want to know what they look like, where they’re from, how old they are, what other movies are they well-known for, etc.

      I love setting up my own search engines. Except for when I change browsers! Haha. Then it sucks having to migrate them all. If I ever switch away from Zen Browser, I might just set them up in Raycast instead, so I don’t have to set them up anew, when I try out new browsers.

      • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I agree they are way ahead of anyone else for utility but they’re also killing the internet.