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Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)
It's Bing without tracking. And the things like quotation marks still work. However, baseline search using it has still gone to shit.
Did it used to be better? I rarely if ever used it before Google's enshittification, but now I'm just happy to find ~~streaming services~~ whatever I need.
It did, but Bing hiked their prices so it got shitty.
Oh, "it" meaning Bing then, not DDG. Although I thought Bing had always been free... shows what I "know"!:-P
DDG uses Bing on the backend, and they have to pay for each query, so Bing affects DDG
Oh damn, thanks for the explanation! 😀
No, I've been using it for about 4 years or more, I think, and the search is stably kind of okay. Some time ago Google used to work when ddg failed, but…