Lesser-Known Search Engines That Are Worth Checking Out
I don't know if DuckDuckGo counts as "lesser known" but I find it incredibly useful.The !wa bang command is great for weird conversions. (Ex: Sometimes watching mad men I might plug in "!wa 100 dollars 1960" and out pops an inflation adjusted figure)!fake can check a given amazon product for fake reviewsStuff like Wikipedia (!w), reddit (!r) etc.Some people complain the results aren't as good as Google but I think they have either forgotten and/or never learned how to search. Since the engine has no PII on you, it can't handle ambiguity well. A good heuristic is if your query would give you a disambiguation page on Wikipedia, add a few terms.I've been using it exclusively for a while, and the only time I really go back to Google is for their maps.