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lud@lemm.ee 6 months agoIt also does that with other unrecognised user agents.
Personally I don’t understand why someone would still use Google when duckduckgo has more features and is just as good for searching and in the very rare case it isn’t you can easily switch back temporarily by just adding the prefix “!g” to your query.
I really want to ditch Google, but DuckDuckGo aint there my brother.
It may work for some simpler/lazy searches, but for real stuff, nah.
The “good” thing is that Google search is going the way of Amazon, so with Google shooting themselves in the foot and DDG catching up a bit, maybe soon they’ll level
Works perfectly fine for trouble shooting complicated IT problems.
I've switched most defualts over to DDG but Google is still better for some things. Feels sort of like the late 99s/early 00s with Altavista, Ask Jeeves, etc.
Isn’t ducksuckgo just paying for google search with a privacy wrapper/obfuscation layer on top?
Yes, except for it’s Bing search not Google
I think they also use Yahoo and their own scrapers too.
Not that it matters of course.
ddg always drops one of at least two troublesome terms. Which is infuriating.
Might have to do with my settings, in which case it is a bug.
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I tried duckduckgo for a while and kept coming back to Google for “real” searches at work. It’s not as good for searching in my experience. Yet.
masquenox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Duckduckgo has become a little better than it used to be… but google has also become a whole lot worse.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, I haven’t quite found a replacement that is better than google, but the way the trajectories are, it’s only a matter of time.
masquenox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If you’re looking for research papers, duckduckgo (and yandex) is your friend - google is perfectly unusable for that these days.
pohart@programming.dev 6 months ago
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This is the truth. I switched back when I got a new pc at work, and google was way worse.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The vast majority of times I go back to Google to do a search I find it also returns useless results. I’m not convinced it’s any better than duckduckgo. I think it used to be, but not anymore.
sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I had the same experience. I used switch between DDG and Google when DDG gave results I didn’t want. During the pandemic, I remember DDG giving lots of false positives and odd, non-standard web page hits. Like, if I was searching for current COVID advice, it would give me hits from the health department in Bumfuck, Nebraska instead of, say, CDC (and I don’t live in Bumfuck, Nebraska). It has really improved since then and now I can use DDG pretty much exclusively. Not having to scroll past a page of Google ads to find my search results is quite glorious.
skeezix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The 6 residents of bumfuck Nebraska would like a word with you after their Trump circlejerk.
agileharddisk@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I think it depends on wether google is eating the cookies or not
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s your field?
I’m in a DevOps/Cloud Engineer role and DDG works better for me than Google. No ads and somehow fewer of the gpt generated fake help articles.
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Same vein, devops/data engineering. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, I’d like to get off Google.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Big same. I’ll even bang out to Startpage to try to avoid directly using Google (!sp vs. !g), but that’s not as good either.
I bow to my search overlord Google. Until I try Grasp, Kagi, and SearXNG, and hopefully one of those will satisfy (in particular SearXNG).
Until then DDG remains my default, and I’ll !g half the time :(
jamyang@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Did you use Kagi? How was it?
czech@low.faux.moe 6 months ago
Been using Kagi for a few months. Now that the unlimited tier is $10 it’s a no brainer, for me.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
One of the three on my to-try list, still.