For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me,
This is what tracking helps with. Google knows roughly where you live (or exactly where you live if you have your home saved in Google Maps) and uses this data as part of Google search.
One of the main benefits of other search engines is that they don’t track you, but as a result, the results aren’t customized for you.
Not like they don’t have my address: I paid for it with my credit/debit card. They could also make it an opt in feature that customizes the results to be actually more relevant to ME (instead of more relevant to Googles interests). But in the end I still think 10$ a month for a sub par experience is too hard to swallow for me, especially because I found it to load quite a bit slower than Google or duckduckgo. I’m very picky with subscriptions and only subscribe when I feel I am not getting ripped off, like Bitwarden or Proton
This is what tracking helps with. Google knows roughly where you live (or exactly where you live if you have your home saved in Google Maps) and uses this data as part of Google search.
One of the main benefits of other search engines is that they don’t track you, but as a result, the results aren’t customized for you.
Not like they don’t have my address: I paid for it with my credit/debit card. They could also make it an opt in feature that customizes the results to be actually more relevant to ME (instead of more relevant to Googles interests). But in the end I still think 10$ a month for a sub par experience is too hard to swallow for me, especially because I found it to load quite a bit slower than Google or duckduckgo. I’m very picky with subscriptions and only subscribe when I feel I am not getting ripped off, like Bitwarden or Proton