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Poll: Which Search Engine Do You Use? Google vs Bing vs ?

Which Search Engines Do You Use? (Choose All that apply)

  • Google

    Votes: 61 75.3%

  • Bing

    Votes: 7 8.6%

  • Yahoo!

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • DuckDuckGo

    Votes: 16 19.8%

  • Brave

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Ecosia

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Something Else

    Votes: 7 8.6%
  • Total voters
    81
dsio
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josiahg52 josiahg52
I use a saved link to navigate to OF on all my devices which all use DDG browsers; Android, Windows laptop. I use OF search to search OF. If I search general watch stuff, DDG seems to offer more than a few results from OF, more than WUS generally, if a thread exists. I've used the DDG search engine in Firefox, and then Pale Moon for a very, very long time and started using the DDG browser as soon as it became available for Windows. I used Firefox, Dolphin, then Brave for some time on Android, using the DDG search engine with all of them. Now it's DDG search engine and browsers for everything, Brave as a backup but still using DDG search. I also use Mullvad browser occasionally.
So we only had about 200 pages indexed for years on all bing index engines, we’re now up to about 2500-3000 and aiming to get it to parity with Google at 35,000+ before too long, we’re seeing entirely new traffic from it already too and new members which is cool to see
 
Harbormaster
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I must be old and outdated because I don’t know what any of this means? I use my phone to get to OF?
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Braindrain
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GOOG, only because I own equity. If I want better results, then DDG.
 
dsio
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Well that's a much bigger spread than I had expected, we'll update once we're fully indexed but in the mean time keen for more users to vote in the poll as they find it
 
dsio
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Still a ways to go yet but we just had our highest traffic ever from DuckDuckGo and Bing is also up by quite a fair bit too

Still a lot more to index but it’s getting there
 
JimInOz
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Not sure if it's anything to do with current software at your end, but the shortcut icon to ΩF has changed.
Used to be a later happy feet style I think, now seems to have gone vintage.

Screenshot 2026-06-08 at 11.44.27.webp
 
dsio
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JimInOz JimInOz
Not sure if it's anything to do with current software at your end, but the shortcut icon to ΩF has changed.
Used to be a later happy feet style I think, now seems to have gone vintage.

Screenshot 2026-06-08 at 11.44.27.webp
Trev created a new high resolution .svg logo as it's now supported by most browsers, the new one looks much better on dark mode as it doesn't have white pixels in the corners
 
Emeister
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dsio dsio
Google ... seem to be alienating a lot of people, especially older users
As an oldie I haven't noticed any real changes, yet.
Now YouTube, on the other hand, won't give me the "new to you" search any more and is just suggesting videos I've already seen. Instagram was never great and most users add irrelevant hashtags which could have made it useful but searches just seem to show reels rather than pictures recently.

I use Google but thinking of switching to " Ask @hansaboy " after his recent transition to the Personal Assistant realm:
https://omegaforums.net/posts/2599073/ Davidt
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hansaboy hansaboy
This...?
😁


That’s the one Hans. You’d make a great personal assistant if you ever fancy a career change!

😉🇸🇪🧐
 
jffoo
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pdxleaf pdxleaf
I don't know what you're asking.

I use DDG to go to OF. Then I use OF search for specific OF content.
Screenshot_20260602_061656_DuckDuckGo.webp
what am I using?

I can say that the search results often are incomplete, as I might know a word or two of a thread I want but can't remember the exact title. I sometimes can't find the thread.
I keep reading OF as "onlyfans" 😂🤣
 
YY77
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I keep reading OF as "onlyfans" 😂🤣
The question that comes to mind is, are you using the same username for both?::stirthepot::
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Peemacgee Peemacgee
As above, as a Mac user (iPhone, iPad, Macbook) my default is Safari - but as a browser, that just takes you to Google.
Safari has settings on which search engine you want- and even though I’m not a techie I switched everything to Duck Duck Go -and moreover I use mostly Firefox, all for privacy protection reasons.
 
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