Comment on Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News

someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• art@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google search has been fundamentally broken for at least two years. When the protests started on Reddit 90% of Google’s search results we’re broken.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I found this too. After the reddit fiasco, I found DDG to have no downside.

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• brewery@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What difficulties are you finding with it and are you switching from Google? The results are as custom as Google given they haven’t scraped your life history so wondering if that’s it? I’ve been using DDG without any issues. About once every 6 months I struggle to find something so try the Google bang but have never found better results. In fact, I was shocked last time how crap the Google results were, just full of AI generated crap and SEO based crap.

  To be honest, DDG is also struggling with that now as it’s based on Bing. I have been trying a public searxg but not found it very good so far.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Results suck, can’t find anything. Really don’t think it’s related to my browsing history.

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    • progettarsi@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      what do you search? i always find everything at first time

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      • clegko@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not the same person, but DDG results just seem a little bit shittier than Google’s results. It’s nothing I can specifically put my finger on, outside of “I’m having more issues finding an answer for my query”.

        I also hate the basic layout of the page, but that’s not a DDG problem as such, just a personal opinion.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try Kagi. You may love it like I did.

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    • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hell no. Paying for something that’s the same as ddg. That’s a terrible idea, and the results aren’t any better, despite how much their marketing claims it to be and that smaller blogs show up more.

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      • bort@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess you get what you pay for then lol

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love DDG and use it as my default, but there’s no doubt that its index is shallower and its semantic matching can’t compare to Google’s. I’m a biogeochemist and spend a lot of time coding in R. Google is just better at surfacing rare science articles/blogs and stackoverflow pages where my query doesn’t match exactly, but it is a relevant result. I use DDG for my personal searching and Google for professional searching

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• steltek@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That didn’t stop them from plowing ahead with Apple Maps, even though its debut was total garbage.

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  • Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Debut and still is garbage.

    There’s a reason why Apple users have both installed.

    Does Apple Maps even have reviews?

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    • LifeInOregon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anyone who thinks Apple Maps is garbage isn’t comparing A/B with Google Maps regularly. At least not in the areas I drive.

      Door Dash defaults to Google Maps for directions, and when I Dash and use Google the routing is always poor and seemingly unaware of construction, road blocks, and traffic jams. It also sometimes asks me to make turns in places that aren’t streets and recommends U Turns where they are illegal. I’ve encountered none of that with Apple Maps.

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      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sometimes I’m too lazy to copy and paste an address into Google maps, and use Apple Maps. Every time I regret it. And exactly the opposite of what you said apple fails to see road closures and detours. While missing so many other things google has had for 15 years.

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      • Kiosade@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Apple tried to get me to turn into a dead-end, concrete wall once. Never used it again. But that was years ago, so if they’ve improved that’s great to hear! Google Maps plays this game where it tries to act as traffic control. It’ll only show options for paths I know to be super crappy to take at certain times of day, but won’t show an alternate (not so secret) path I KNOW to be better. I’ll start heading the alternate way and lo and behold, it cuts off 5 mins or whatever from the ETA. So stupid.

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• Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I primarily use it. What sucks about it? It isn’t as flashy without those little quick answers that Google throws together, but those are garbage a lot of the time anyway imo. Otherwise, I don’t really have any issues finding what I need that I can think of

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  • supercriticalcheese@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are not going to get a more constructive criticism from OP.

    I use mainly ddg but I have occasionally needed to switch to Google, but it’s happening less and less.

    But then again with Google you need to frequently add keywords such as discussions or Reddit to find something that in the word’s of OP doesn’t suck balls.

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  • Tschuuuls@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only thing I miss is Google shopping sometimes. That actually is really useful when you need a super obscure part that’s not available on ebay or Amazon and just sold on three random websites. Google shopping will show them and let you compare prices perfectly.

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  • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have been trying to use it for years but it just literally has a lot of issues with pretty normal search queries that worked perfectly on Google 15 years ago.

    I want it to be good. But it’s not.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, Google has problems with the results they would have given 15 years ago, that’s why people are switching.

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      • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m awake Google has gotten worse. DDG is much worse imo but still use it daily hoping it will improve because fuck Google

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I find the results suck donkey balls.

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• 3v1n0@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t agree.

  I switched from Google quite recently, as I knew it was hard…

  But now I’m mostly not using !g unless for few cache: searches or when I want use few features (sport results, without going to specific websites).

  You’ve to use some search syntax items more as + but otherwise it’s quite good and clear to read.

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