DDG, to its credit, behaves like search engines used to, that is you just get results, not “answers” however for all the ways they annoy, Google has over the years made advances where “answers” actually are what I want.
Specifically, google search integrates very well with google maps so if I type the name of a business, the first thing I see is a formatted, sanitised presentation of the information I actually want from the business’ website that is so rarely even on the site or at least not easy to find there: Where they are and when they open. DDG will usually find me the business’ website if they have one and that’s good and what you’d expect of a search engine but it takes much longer to go to that page, navigate through all the places they might have hidden that information only to discover they don’t in fact include it at all anyway.
Is there any way to get that basic information very fast like Google has always provided? I’m talking specifically about browser based searches because this usually comes up when I’m using desktop, and even on my phone I don’t want to open or obtain another app just for this.
Try Kagi.
A proxy for Google search run by Mullvad
It doesn’t show any business or maps data though, just the search results like DDG does.
Ahh my bad, didn’t think of that, but of course it doesn’t.
It’s the main thing I miss from using google, the maps results and the business profiles. So far none of the other search engines I’ve tried have it, or they have an alternative that doesn’t work.
Im new to degoogling so please correct me if im wrong. But maybe startpage? It uses google results but what i know, it doesnt share any data or bring revenue to google
Add !g to the search to get redirected to Google for that one search
Give Perplexity a try. Mostly accurate answers and it cites it’s sources. Available as a website and app:
https://lemmy.world/post/26764870
I find it a decent companion to DDG.
Kagi does a decent job.
