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I have a new Windows 10 tablet. Question: Does Edge and its built-in search
engine work as well as Firefox or some other browser and Google?

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On 5/14/2020 6:21 AM, KenK wrote:
Does Edge and its built-in search
engine work as well as Firefox or some other browser and Google?


It's a matter of taste and how you work. We don't all have the same
opinions.

That said, I'll give you my opinion: Edge is terrible--about the worst
of all browsers. Ad the same goes for Bing--about the worst of all
search engines.

I greatly prefer FireFox and Google.


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"KenK" wrote

|I have a new Windows 10 tablet. Question: Does Edge and its built-in search
| engine work as well as Firefox or some other browser and Google?
|

Why not choose your own search engine and go there
with a bookmark? Built-in search is a kind of spyware
and tries to keep you limited to their services. It's not
about the browser. It's about what search engine you use.
If you use Edge you're probably searching with bing*. But
you don't have to. When I search I always click my
bookmark to duckduckgo. I never type in a search bar.

The other thing that will affect search is privacy factors.
If you allow cookies, script, etc, then search engines and
many webpages will customize their presentation for
you personally -- for better or worse. If you block those
things -- especially script -- then you'll get more
generic results.


* I haven't tried Bing, so I don't know how well it works, but
I know that weh nMS developed it they said they were
going to focus more on consumer/shopping functionality.
So I wouldn't think it's a great choice of search engine.

I find duckduckgo works well for most things. I avoid
Google because they're so sleazy, but occasionally I'll use their
search when duckduckgo doesn't find what I need.

On 5/14/2020 8:24 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"KenK" wrote

|I have a new Windows 10 tablet. Question: Does Edge and its built-in search
| engine work as well as Firefox or some other browser and Google?
|

Why not choose your own search engine and go there
with a bookmark? Built-in search is a kind of spyware
and tries to keep you limited to their services. It's not
about the browser. It's about what search engine you use.
If you use Edge you're probably searching with bing*. But
you don't have to. When I search I always click my
bookmark to duckduckgo. I never type in a search bar.


I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers, but
FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you prefer. I
have mine set to Startpage.


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Ken

Ken Blake wrote:

Why not choose your own search engine and go there
with a bookmark? Built-in search is a kind of spyware
and tries to keep you limited to their services. It's not
about the browser. It's about what search engine you use.
If you use Edge you're probably searching with bing*. But
you don't have to. When I search I always click my
bookmark to duckduckgo. I never type in a search bar.


I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers, but
FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you prefer. I
have mine set to Startpage.


I think I saw somewhere that entering the search terms in the address bar
changed your privacy versis entering the search terms in the search engine
bar.

On 5/14/2020 9:21 AM, KenK wrote:
I have a new Windows 10 tablet. Question: Does Edge and its built-in search
engine work as well as Firefox or some other browser and Google?

I only use Edge if something has gone wrong with the other browsers on
my system. It's the last-chance option for me. Edge is set to default
use Bing as its default search engine. I've never been impressed with
Bing, or even slightly pleased. I tend to use DuckDuckGo and of course
Google more often.

Yousuf Khan

On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:34:18 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers,
but FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you
prefer. I have mine set to Startpage.

Same here, easy to select whichever default engine you prefer in the
Win10 default browser, Edge. Which is an excellent browser by the
way, in spite of comments on here to the contrary.

On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:34:18 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers, but
FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you prefer. I
have mine set to Startpage.

Startpage is good, I used to use it myself. Now I'm using Qwant,
which is fast and effective.

On 5/15/2020 2:38 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:34:18 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers,
but FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you
prefer. I have mine set to Startpage.

Same here, easy to select whichever default engine you prefer in the
Win10 default browser, Edge. Which is an excellent browser by the
way, in spite of comments on here to the contrary.


You are of course entitled to that opinion. But everyone here should
note that it's an *opinion*, not a fact.

My opinion is the opposite of yours. According to me, Edge is the worst
of all browsers.

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Ken

On 5/15/2020 2:44 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:34:18 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers, but
FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you prefer. I
have mine set to Startpage.

Startpage is good, I used to use it myself. Now I'm using Qwant,
which is fast and effective.



Startpage is a front end to Google. I don't know Qwant. What is it? Is
it its own search engine, or also a front end to some other one?


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Ken

On Fri, 15 May 2020 07:57:42 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On 5/15/2020 2:44 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:34:18 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers, but
FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you prefer. I
have mine set to Startpage.

Startpage is good, I used to use it myself. Now I'm using Qwant,
which is fast and effective.

Startpage is a front end to Google....

But without ads and data logging.

On 15/05/2020 10:38, mechanic wrote:
Same here, easy to select whichever default engine you prefer in the
Win10 default browser, Edge. Which is an excellent browser by the
way, in spite of comments on here to the contrary.

By the way there is no point in giving away secrets about EDGE here
because these nutters will start using it and we'll have endless praise
here about it and flood these newsgroups with nothing else.

Just direct them to use something else so that they go away from here.

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On 5/15/2020 11:59 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2020 07:57:42 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On 5/15/2020 2:44 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:34:18 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I always type in a search bar. I'm not sure about other browsers, but
FireFox's search bar can be set to whatever search engine you prefer. I
have mine set to Startpage.

Startpage is good, I used to use it myself. Now I'm using Qwant,
which is fast and effective.

Startpage is a front end to Google....

But without ads and data logging.



Yes, that's why I use it.


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Ken