I defaulted to DDG now. It has been working just fine. Every now and then I can’t find something and I will append a “!g” at the end of the search in DDG to get Google results.
I will use Yandex when searching for more copyright infringing content which works very well too.
That has me 100% covered. If I were to lose Google I would still be 98% covered.
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I miss the days when it was rare to need to goto the second page. Now you have to in order to get passed the all the shite. Even ignoring the sponsored shit Google wants to sell me the thing I’m trying to get a review of on the firs and second page
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
In my case it’s trying to sell me the fucking thing i explicitly excluded from results with a boolean
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can imagine some mid-level idiot with an MBA coming up with that one in a staff meeting. “I know how we increase revenue, guys: the old reverse psychology!”
Bastard probably got a bonus for it.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Not even that smart. It’s just shitty, shitty SEO
‘Stick ads for x on anything that mentions x, xa, xy and related terms. Don’t pay attention to exclusions’