Unpopular opinion : Bing is a better search engine than Google when it comes to piracy

So far the only comments have been 'everyone knows this already', but I did not, so thank you for posting it

Or you can use duckduckgo that uses bings search index while protecting your privacy

Yandex is the best when it comes to pirate searches, hands down

Pro tip: if you do insist on using Google scroll to the bottom until you see a notice like the one below.

You can then click on the complaint to see the URLs that were removed.

They’ve wisened up a bit and now require a (throwaway) email to access the links, but chances are that if you’re looking for something more obscure, the link you seek is still there.

Google is just better at censorship.

I use searx because it aggregates over multiple search engines. You can find searx nodes here: https://searx.space/

That's not an unpopular opinion. It's a known fact for years.

Unpopular opinion: chocolate tastes good

Google nowadays works if you wanna search something from the Wikipedia or like the same 20 websites. For anything else, good luck going through all the SEO autogenerated garbage.

SearX go brrr There's even a tab for ′files′ which is all just torrents

I can highly recommend Brave search, they have their own index and don't "comply" with the DMCA because it's not actually required for a search engine but sadly also not forbidden. I love it every time piratebay.org shows up when it obviously should and not some scummy fake sites!

Why would you use Bing over DDG? Honest question

So duckduckgo which is primarily bing would be best for piracy privacy?

Its better at serving unbias results as well.

where (at least piracy forums) is this an unpopular opinion?

Been using the Duckduckgo app for awhile now. Works fantastic, F google

Google is getting passed by in many ways. Chrome feels like a second rate browser now.

Don't they still provide that link at the bottom of the first page with a list of all the DMCA'd content in one convenient link (so you can be sure to avoid it)?

Ecosia feels the best to me

I've found yandex to work even better. But yeah bing is way better than Google.

How does Bing compare to duckduckgo?

Idk man. Bing Dorking isn't as good as Google's. They have similar operators but Google usually has better results.

It's better for porn as well... A friend told me

Searx is the best because its uses multiple search engines at the same time

Thanks, I used to use Bing as my default search engine for a while and it sucked for anything if you needed more than the 1st page of results

Nice to see someone talking about this. I actually have been using bing for the last year because of this exact reason. Also when using a VPN, bing never gives me a captcha.

Can't say that's really an unpopular opinion. Bing had it's advantage over Google, that's for sure.

I'm no Microsoft fan boy, but I think Bing is better than Google at most things. The only thing I use google for now a days is a spell checker.

Apparently porn as well.

I don’t think this is unpopular. I just think people use Google because of the UI/UX and it being a better search engine for other things.

I think they care about DMCAs, for example my Lemmy instance for some reason is completely blocked on bing on behalf of some unspecified copyright troll

It's just most copyright trolls only care about Google and won't even bother sending the DMCA to bing

I just only know I have been using duckduckgo for years and for me is enough

Alternatives to Google, to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, alternatives to Chromium/Chrome browsers - these are important things to be aware of.

SearXNG has search handled for me - scraping Bing and Google amongst others (and often I see Google results are low down on my list).

Think bing would be a good place to find a rip of Kevin Smith's movie "Red State"? I can't seem to find it anywhere with Google searches or with the pirate bay.

I use Startpage, it gave me the same result as Bing.

I think its inferior because there are barely any search operators... Google has alot...

I pretty much exclusively use Google to search for reddit posts on niche stuff. I stick with google because DDG or any alternatives I tried don't have the Date of the searched reddit posts on the results.

I'd use Bing but all the links are purple and I can't fix it after googling fixes x.x

I use Brave and occasionally Crowdview for questions... any reason why I should find a Searx instance instead?

Yandex is even better.

I always search for torrent in Yandex, sometimes in btdig if this search is too criminal