- Clogged with advertisements
- Rigged focusing on Google properties and those sites who pay, rather than what you're actually looking for or what would actually solve your problems.
- Little interest in privacy
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So this brings us to the topic of alternatives, which we've covered at some length.
The problem with these is that everyone has based evaluations on ALL operations that can be done with a search engine. And because of the astonishing size of the internet, really only only Bing and Bing-powered web searches are able to answer that test. As a result, most engines I see advertise either a better interface, improved privacy, or some capability with a specific search.
I'm going to try something different. I'll be looking at this entirely from our sites' perspective. Does it help me search this site better than other tools? Are we listed near the top for the terms we should be attached to i.e. "portable" and "freeware"?
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