DDG came out as a non bubble results search engine. It is absolutely a bubble result now. If I search a short nonsensical few letters, I will get random results of doctors, agencies and companies in my small Irish town. If you turn off location it just either does nothing or sprinkles in a couple other results into the hyper focused ones. They became part of the problem they were trying to solve.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
Absolutely this. I’m excited to try Mullvad, but with Kagi being the only one listed I’m never going to try, I can firmly say from my perspective search engines all suck big time these days. 15 years ago I think my search success on Google was somewhere around 80%, now I would say it’s somewhere around 20%, takes me dozens of searches and variations on wording to find what I’m looking for. DDG never gives me good results, because it feels like Bing has only crawled 10% of the Internet. SearX or whatever it’s called and it’s variations all were way more headache than they were worth and I had tons of issues with them.