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

• SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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