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Crow @[email protected] · 2026-09-14 · 14:13 UTC

I would love to settle on a 100% woke/not morally compromised #search engine, but #Mojeek is really quite terrible at finding businesses even when you give it the actual name and street they’re on in the town.
Do I recall correctly there are problems with #ecosia too? I’ve used #duckduckgo for years and it’s now my fallback, but I know they get their search results from Bing. Yuck.
#searchengine

#search #mojeek #ecosia #duckduckgo #searchengine

FJ Brodie @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 23:58 UTC

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#duckduckgo

FJ Brodie @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 23:58 UTC

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#duckduckgo

FJ Brodie @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 23:58 UTC

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#duckduckgo

FJ Brodie @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 23:58 UTC

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#duckduckgo

FJ Brodie @[email protected] · 2026-09-13 · 23:58 UTC

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#duckduckgo