Kagi is pretty great. But I haven’t used Google Search in a few years, so I can’t properly judge.
Comment on The end of the Googleverse
HipPriest@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean the article is specifically about Google search. Which might have gone downhill since whenever it first came out with the introduction of ads (sorry, 'Sponsored Results') but I'm not seeing significantly better competition for delivering search results. Everyone is still just aping the brand leader.
DuckDuckGo is obviously better for privacy for example but it doesn't seem to have any ambition except to deliver the same results as Google but without the ads and tracking which is ok but not a big enough draw except for people already concerned about privacy. Bing gets essentially the same results but if anything seems more spammy than Google with pop ups about making it or edge your default search engine or browser. It feels like other search engines just take Google search as something to copy and put their spin on it though.
I'd say search is one of the things Google is still getting right enough to earn its place as the leader. Some things it does well, some things it has badly declined on (someone above mentioned Google assistant hardly understanding anything anymore, when it used to be the best in this area too), but generally you can replace most Google things with programmes doing things their own way. Search engines just feel a bit like reskins to me
Steve@communick.news 1 year ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Honestly Bing has outperformed Google for me lately to the point where I might set as default on some browsers.
June@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I switched full time to bing last month and have so far not missed google at all.
I’d rather not just go to another mega corp, but the rest that I tried out just didn’t get the results I was looking for.
kingludd@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
Ddg is driving me crazy with correcting what i type to give more generalized results. Searx is my new favorite. It’s not just a google reskin.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Brave search uses a different index, so I like searching it first since it will give me significantly different results
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
I don't think duckduckgo has ANY control over improving the search results. Except maybe switching to a different engine.
micka190@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty much. The reason Google’s search results were so good was because of the information they had on you and on other users who made similar searches. I’m not advocating for DDG to start tracking users, though. But it’ll be hard for them to have a “Google-like” search experience (single search bar with no other parameters) without that kind of data.
Kolrami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google immediately jumped ahead in search when it started by having a simple webpage and using PageRank. This was a while before there were even Gmail accounts and all the tracking we’re given now.
At this point I’d settle for a search company that doesn’t care to track you, uses general (not specific) predictive search, implements Boolean search, and isn’t diminished in quality by SEO.
That last criterion is the hardest one. It might not even be feasible.