Comment on Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Alto@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I've found DDG and Google have become of fairly equal quality lately, although I think it's mainly due to Google getting worse rather than DDG getting significantly better

  source
• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I honestly don’t think it’s inferior, but it does deliver different results and does so in a different manner.

  Google is far superior for shopping however.

  source
• eyepatchcheetah@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was my experience a few years ago. I would find myself first searching in DDG then using the g! or SP! search bangs to use Google or startpage. However, I have not needed that in at least a year or two. DDG now pretty much meets all my search needs.

  source

  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What DDG doesn’t seem to do well is search a term which includes an exact match phrase. What I mean is this.

    If I search in DDG for ‘eyepatchcheetah “That was my experience a few years ago.”’ it will give me a bunch of unrelated results with all of those words but not necessarily in that order, but if I put that into Google, this thread would be more likely to be at the top. This is a way I search for things quite often, so it’s kind of annoying to have to go back to Google to do those sorts of searches.

    source

    • macallik@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same. It completely ignores exact phrase match so you can't drill down with the most important aspects of a query. Ecosia was the same way IIRC, so it might be related to people using Bing data as a 3rd party perhaps

      source

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s such a stupid thing to not work. If you’re looking for a specific webpage or even an error code or something it’s just impossible now.

        source
• breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m keeping my eye on Kagi. About to start a trial. If it’s good, I think it’d be refreshing to pay for it.

  source
• SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If DDG doesn’t work, try !g to automatically send you to Google with the same query. Its handy for situations where DDG can’t find something.

  There’s also !yt by the way.

  source

  • radix@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use !wt (Wiktionary) and !gi (Google Images) surprisingly often.

    source

    • SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Knew there would be more! Thanks for telling me!

      source
• Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really tried my best with DDG, but I absolutely hated it. I’m back on Google search until I can find something better

  source

  • techgearwhips@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Self host SearxNG or find a cheap provider for it and never look back

    source
  • Linssiili@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Give kagi a shot, it’s paid service, but they have a 100 search trial

    source