• Clairvoidance@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    might not count, but I use startpage, which uses google while allegedly keeping none of the info that makes google problematic
    sometimes i use duckduckgo,

    in firefox you can make a shortcut to type anything in any searchbar too, like so: (in this example I’ll use kbin.social search)

    We type something into search to get the exact url we need, that ends up being https://kbin.social/search?q=[something]
    in this case [something] is obviously what we typed, so we save a bookmark of https://kbin.social/search?q=%s where %s swaps out what we type when we call to the bookmark
    Then we give the bookmark a keyword that makes it easy to type, it can be anything but I’ll just use kb
    now whenever i type ‘kb somethingsomething’ it will search somethingsomething on kbin.social

    I use this for youtube, arch wiki, the type-effectiveness graph on bulbapedia pages ( https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%s_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Type_effectiveness ), etc, etc