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All this enshittification lately really inspires me to de-google.
You don't have to look at reducing your Google use as a monumental effort. You can slowly transfer, minimise the number of services you use.
Simple - Switch your default search provider to Duck Duck Go.
Easy - Switch to Firefox
Mid - export your documents from Google Drive
Complex - Transfer your primary email to another provider.
DuckDuckGo results still suck and are not even remotely comparable to Google‘s. The best alternative imo is Qwant, which uses bing and I think also it’s own index.
If the DuckDuckGo result for your search doesn't yield anything then just append it with
g!and it'll take you straight to the Google results.It's a useful trick but very rarely do I find I need it. Only really when researching a very specific error.
I only wish I could default DDG to not show results from certain sites I simply don't care about. Maybe it's possible and I just haven't found how to do it, but that's the one thing that would really elevate my experience