Comment on Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge

• elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google’s results these days are shit. The other day I googled an exact terraform resource and included “terraform” in my search query. The first result should’ve been the page for that resource in terraform’s documentation, but that page wasn’t in the results at all. What was there was a blogspam copy of said page.

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  • WhyDoesntThisThingWork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google has stop paying attention to it’s own search commands. I can +search term in my search and it will still bring up the same results it brought up in the previous search that made me include the + in the first place, even when I know results with that term exist.

    Also if it decides you’ve typo’d, it often no longer gives you the option to search for the exact thing you typed. It used to say “did you mean __________?” and you could click a link to search for the exact word it thins you mistyped. It now often doesn’t give you that option anymore.

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• Lemonstealingwhore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doesn’t DDG just use Bing?

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  • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, they operate their own crawlers.

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    • _user_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Per duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources/:

      We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

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      • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh interesting. I’ve seen their crawlers in my server logs, didn’t know they were using it to augment Bing.

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