While preparing to send his first child to college, Jeremy Marks quickly realized that all the free “dorm essential” checklists online were incomplete. He spent hours and hours cobbling together a comprehensive list to ensure his son didn’t show up to school having missed something important.
Then there were more hours upon hours reading reviews and shopping for individual products. And the worst part was trying to organize when and where it would all arrive on campus since Jeremy’s son was attending school across the country. What needed to be purchased in advance? What could be picked up at local stores? What should ship to the dorm vs. mail centers?
Jeremy shared the massive Excel spreadsheet with his wife Julie, who nearly passed at the overwhelming number of items, product links, and tracking notes.
With their second child only a year younger, Jeremy wanted to make the daunting list of building a college packing list, selecting items, and managing the whole process of getting ready for move-in day easier for himself and other families.
So, The Dorm List was born to help rising freshmen and their families save time and money while reducing stress.
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In contrast to other "private" search engines (except for Presearch and SearX), it doesn't have trackers, or not nearly as many. This information can be verified by installing uBlock Origin and ClearURLs, which detect 0 and 2 trackers respectively, against for example DuckDuckGo's nearly 10 and 19. Other alternatives are SearX (No trackers AT ALL, still kinda user-friendly) and Presearch (A bit easier to use but a tiny bit worse for privacy, it has 1 more tracking element).
Based on our record, Brave Search seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 339 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I've came to use Brave search [1] lately, and find it is super convenient with the auto-AI-based answers based on the top search results (or at the click of a button if it isn't triggered automatically). The ability to ask various questions right from the browser location bar without login is convenient and a surprisingly big deal IMO. [1] https://search.brave.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Https://search.brave.com/search?q=adding+four+floating+point+numbers+in+bash+and+then+appending+to+a+string ). And it's free. But I'm going to try out Kagi and Perplexity. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
That's for brave's search product (https://search.brave.com/), not its browser. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
I also left DDG, but have been very satisfied with Brave's search. [1] They also have a nice optional LLM system built in that provides citations to what it says, which is pretty neat. They also have 'goggles' which enable you to apply or create a chosen filter to reorder/refilter results. So e.g. Getting news while blocking partisan sites (or indulging our own partisan preferences), searching only tech blogs,... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Currently in search for an alternative search engine to Google or Bing, used DDG for a while but found Brave's Search [1] structured results more useful which is now my default. So far so good but if Brave enshittifies their results may consider having to pay for kagi.com. [1] https://search.brave.com. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
DuckDuckGo - The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Bing - Bing helps you turn information into action, making it faster and easier to go from searching to doing.
Searx - Open source metasearch engine
Google - Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web
MetaGer - MetaGer is a SaaS by the German non-profit SUMA e.V.
Yandex - Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. Our goal is to help consumers and businesses better navigate the online and offline world.