I'd suggest to "Start contributing data to DDG in 2017". Most of their best results are crowdsourced. I've been using it as default for perhaps 2 years now. There's some consistent annoyances, but overall I actually prefer the experience to Google.
It's much nicer about disambiguation than google, and can be incredibly helpful. e.g. Search for Zen - you get a wide selection of possibles in probable order. Sadly there's far too many missing. Crowdsourcing needed.
It's horrible at localisation. eg set Filter by region to UK and search any global multinational. Chances are the UK site is WAY down the list and the .com and US options hard at top. on google UK the local branch is always first.
There's too many instant answers that presume a US only view of the world.
The instant answers when they have adequate data and ! searches are brilliant.
Lyric and video searches are orders of magnitude better than Google.
Maybe 5% of searches go to Google as I'm not quickly finding what I need.
It's much nicer about disambiguation than google, and can be incredibly helpful. e.g. Search for Zen - you get a wide selection of possibles in probable order. Sadly there's far too many missing. Crowdsourcing needed.
It's horrible at localisation. eg set Filter by region to UK and search any global multinational. Chances are the UK site is WAY down the list and the .com and US options hard at top. on google UK the local branch is always first.
There's too many instant answers that presume a US only view of the world.
The instant answers when they have adequate data and ! searches are brilliant.
Lyric and video searches are orders of magnitude better than Google.
Maybe 5% of searches go to Google as I'm not quickly finding what I need.