Current Events > What is the best search engine now that Google is straight up trash?

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I remember using Google in like the 2000s and finding so many helpful results and now I get a page of unrelated information and censorship depending on if Google feels I should be allowed to search zelda leaked gameplay

Bing ?

Still Google ( -_-)

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goatthief posted...

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Nah it's pretty heavily censored

Duckduckgo

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AwesomoSauce posted...

I get a page of unrelated information and censorship depending on if Google feels I should be allowed to search zelda leaked gameplay

I dunno if they still do it, but at one point they were required to have teeny, tiny disclaimers at the bottom of the page stating that pages were omitted and the reason for it. Clicking on the disclaimer would give you an info dump of the sort of thing you're looking for.

As for leaked gameplay, more often than not you need to look for streams in languages other than English or Japanese. Basically, something in French, Italian, Greek, German, etc, as people will put up content for a few hours until a copyright notice gets it taken down.

DeepFriedSquid posted...

Nah it's pretty heavily censored

How so?

Qwant

ask jeeves

Google has got more trash over the years. They're good for really basic searches but anything as complex as a sentence can tend to f*** you over. It seems like the algorithm picks out keywords and gives you results based off what it thinks you want instead of what you asked for.

google is only good for casual searches/getting to things for the first time, then you just have bookmarks. bing maybe good if you're just spamming random letters/numbers to gauge up your daily Microsoft Rewards points. (12 points on edge, 90 on anything else, and 60 on mobile. numbers vary by region). click on daily tasks to tick them off. points otherwise are pretty easy except for the time when quizzes asks for correct answers, then you can just go to reddit for those.

it's probably pennies. but if you've been someone on Xbox ecosystem for years, there's a small chance that you might have accrued microsoft reward points just from buying things on xbox. think i heard that someone supposedly won a sweepstakes for a lifetime of Xbox Live, except since it was over $600 dollars, they have to pay the IRS taxes for it. so they just passed on it. guess you could just earn points but keep under that yearly threshold.

you could just milk rewards for game currency or straight up microsoft wallet. (spend in 90 days). being a subscriber to GP (or gamepass ultimate?) technically gives you more points daily from tasks set on the xbox app (PC+Mobile and Xbox), though i have no idea if it's economical to sustain gamepass via points then hope you get far more points from daily checks to outbalance it. or if it was only formally possible when doing things like converting days of Game Pass to Ultimate/Gold, or when they used to have a "1 month of game pass for $1" deal that they stopped doing a while back.

depending on if there's in-app purchases, there's probably some things that's cheaper (in microsoft wallet) than just getting straight up giftcards. (say for Roblox, or overwatch 2 coins?). there's at least Fortnite funneling if you're in a region where you can play the game on their cloud service. (sidestepping having to own an Xbox/gamepass ultimate in general). vbuck currencies are basically shared between eachover, other than Switch....and maaaybe Sony? (unsure of Vbucks earned from cashing in battle pass stars, or completing quest packs).

duckduckgo or yandex for reverse image search? kinda pulling blanks.

EDIT: also, kind of forgot about the Play on PC/Play with friends task. i know you can sit inside a age of empires point lobby (without entering a match) for the PC/Friends task, though i'm unsure if anything like minecraft realms would count, unless it's either one that's absolutely basic or it's a layered realm with modes. (or they'd expect actual xbox live friends?). you don't even need to play with actual friends for the AOE lobby method.

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Intro2Logic posted...

How so?

DMCA probably