Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do people still use the most popular search engine for search? I get you’re trying to be factitious but it comes across as naff.

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  • ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just tried to use google a few hours ago and it got me the same bad results as other search engines, only that it gave me a bunch of advertisements and AI slop first.

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right… But you’re not operating under the misapprehension that Google is somehow an uncommon choice for search. I agree it’s gotten crap in a lot of cases, but equally I also know just about everyone uses it for search.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It might be the most popular but it is utter crap and has been for a while. It has reached peak enshittification. You used to be able to say you absolutely wanted a term in the search or you didn’t want other terms. It ignores all of that now. Google stopped being about able to search years ago and is more about showing you the most relevant ad. I’m either DuckDuckGo or I self-host my own searxng. I’ve also tried using a locally hosted perplexica (running on my own local LLM) which uses searxng underneath the hood I think.

    Btw: I’m a yank so I had to look up naff so I learned some cool new slang! Now I’ll admit I was being slightly flippant but serious in the fact that Google really sucks as a search engine now.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    *facetious

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• ksigley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  DuckDuckGo is way better.

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  • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe I just am using it wrong, but DDG consistently gives me completely irrelevant results, while Google still gives me what I’m looking for about 70% of the time. Maybe I just need to learn the proper way to search with DDG but so far it’s been next to useless in finding me relevant info.

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    • burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      DDG also seems to exclude some websites from search even if you specifically give terms that should give results for a site. Try searching for any model from Bad Dragon’s website like “bad dragon nova” or another sex toy maker “mr hankeys beefcake” and the first result should be for the item on the maker’s website. I can’t ever get DDG to give results and safe search is already off. It has been like this for years.

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      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Duckduckgo uses Bing which has deindexed a couple of sites.

        I have found the emulation wiki to no longer show up through DDG. It’s the first result on Google but DDG gives you just Fandom garbage.

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