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TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

They’re somehow WORSE than duckduckgo nowadays like how? You were the search leader, people used DDG for privacy reasons but they passed you??? Did you forget why you’re a company? It’s because you were the best fucking search engine ever and you decided to sell that title for ads or some shit. Incredible how Google fell off the fucking side of a mountain they themselves built!

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Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, but have you considered, line must go up?

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ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For me it went from “great” to “usable” over the course of a decade or so, and then from “usable” to “worthless” over the course of six months. It’s a remarkably awful trajectory.

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hagelslager@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine these days after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)

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- clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  you can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.
  
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  - hagelslager@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.
    
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- rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks
  
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icedterminal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s pretty wild how Google search has degraded. The push for SEO has really ruined useful results.

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snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Kagi is even better than DDG. Google is absolutely horrendous.

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- qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s interesting but 120 a year is just too much for me.
  
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  - snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The lowest plan is only $54 a year and it’s most definitely worth it for the results.
    
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    qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    300 searches a month is just way too little for my usage
    
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tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is ddg actually good now? I remember it feeling nearly useless waay back when it was first hitting the scene. Might have to give it a shot again

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- jagungal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m not a power user, but I’ve used DDG exclusively for a while now and I often forget that I’m using it. I’d say it’s a pretty seamless transition nowadays.
  
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- Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You actually get the results you are looking for without the sponsored links. Sometimes you end up searching for reddit results but that’s every search engine.
  
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  - snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not kagi. I haven’t specified Reddit once since switching to kagi. It really is that much better than DDG and Google.
    
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- Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I only use Google if DDG can’t find what I’m looking for. Usually Google doesn’t either if DDG can’t do lately I’ve been giving up after the DDG results. I can’t stand Google anymore. The first page of results is just ads and the next page is all irrelevant nonsense.
  
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