Email and search engines

Axios

Dunno If its just me but kinda on a rampage to find a decent long term email provider and
a Decent search engine that is good and on par with google I know thats alot to ask Nowdays
But maybe google is it but with all the protections one can add on there end.
Dunno havent kept up with it for a few years know things have changed in todays climate
Just kinda wanted to see what everyone thought.

WetGeek

Axios to find a decent long term email provider and
a Decent search engine that is good and on par with google

I've been very pleased with DuckDuckGo as a search engine. Of course, we have no idea what we haven't been shown when we do a search, but in my experience there's been no obvious evidence of slanted results with DDG. And, a big advantage, it's not Google.

By "email provider," do you mean an email client, like Thunderbird (in Solus by default) or a reliable ISP?

kyrios

Axios I never had to change e-mail providers. I have e-mail addresses from my ISP since 1997, got a riseup.net e-mail since 2014. I have a gmail account that I never use and a rocketmail.com (owned by yahoo now) that I now use as my trash mail account that are both in service for a very long time. All of them are long term.

If you don't trust your providers, you can register a domain name to have your personalized e-mail address so you can change providers as much as you want without having to change your e-mail address.

Regarding the search engines, I try to stay away from google, although I confess that I still use google search from time to time. My main search engine is ecosia.com because in my personal opinion DDG isn't always good with french.

tomscharbach

Axios decent long term email provider and a decent search engine that is good and on par with google

I use Outlook as my primary (family, friends, financial and medical, legal and so on) e-mail provider, Yahoo as my "junk" mail provider (the address I use when I'm logging into a political or commercial site for this or that reason, knowing I'm in for spam as a result), and Gmail as my verification emergency account.

I use Bing as my search engine, in part because I think that it works well and gives accurate results, and in part for the points. I "cash in" my Bing points whenever I get to 100,000 and use the points to buy Amazon gift cards, which I use to splurge on e-books that I wouldn't otherwise buy.

I should mention, I guess, that the Bing search engine is used by Duck Duck Go and several other "independent" search engines.

I've been using Outlook and Bing for years and years, without issues or problems.

WetGeek

kyrios I have a gmail account that I never use

Made me smile. 😄 I have one, too, which I use for signing on to my Google calendars inside of Thunderbird and Google TV, the only streaming service that would provide our local channels. I'm pretty sure I haven't actually looked at Gmail in almost 20 years. I have no idea what's in my account there, but Google is welcome to any and all of it.

Brucehankins

I'm probably the odd one out in this bunch except maybe @tomscharbach, but I actually prefer outlook. I have a Gmail that I've had since I was a teen and started using the internet, I mostly use it for non-important stuff. I've got an icloud that I never use since I once was part of the Apple ecosystem, my ISP email which is never used, and my outlook email. Outlook is my main email for anything professional or important anymore. I've heard good things about proton mail also, but never used it.
For email clients, I prefer mailspring on PC and Spark on my mobile.

Search......I use bing....but it's for the points! I save up points for a gift card, then buy silver in Destiny 2 with the gift cards. This way I can get the new season pass when it's available without paying any real money. I know I'm paying with data....but it's a tradeoff I've accepted.

WetGeek

tomscharbach Yahoo as my "junk" mail provider (the address I use when I'm logging into a political or commercial site for this or that reason, knowing I'm in for spam as a result

I use a similar account. As I own the wetgeek.net domain, it was trivial for me to create the address "spam@wetgeek.net." I know that any mail that reaches that account is mail I have no interest in, so I don't visit it often. Sometimes not for months.

When I do take a look, it's always surprising how many customers that address was sold to. And who those customers are. 😃

seanragout

I have a gmail account I use for 'junk' mails and other assorted stuff.
For all other correspondence I use Tutanota there is an appimage for linux and an android app on my phone.
I find it to be both secure and reliable. Oh and for search purposes, Bing is my weapon of choice.

alfisya

I really like Brave Search. It has many feature I use on google. Checking stock price, weather, calculator, currency converter, measurement computer, and now football (soccer for americans) scores directly on search page.

edit: forgot to mention, the actual search result is good and now support customizable filter (sorter) called Goggles (why would you name it that..)

brent

@Axios long-term email to me is normal. my email web providers have always been consistent.
Search engines, on the other hand, I agree with you 100%. Eventually they all suck or wander far from useful. I am even abandoning DDG soon since CEO said he will determine what is fake and censor accordingly...that's nuts to me...I do love the Brave search but even that will get co-opted someday.
cynically yours🙂

Axios

brent Ya thats kinda what I am stuck on right now the brave search engine and use google if all else fails..
The fake and political landscape I think is what pushed my buttons..haha

elfprince

For me it is Gmail, Proton and the Duck. 😄

brent

elfprince in FF I have, and use engines DDG (on the way out), Brave, Metager. Mojeek on occasion. (Peekier and Swiss Cows are meh to me), I installed Searx a couple months ago and my stomach literally churned---I mean sick and queasy--at the sewer results. So uninstalled it. Wretched and wrong.
Long story short: try Metager, it's has a good security reputation and results are good---definitely one play with.