Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything?

• Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s because it is.

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s great that DDG doesn’t track a users searches. It really is.
  But at the end of the day, it’s still just an ad platform being used by companies to sell you things.
  And here you are complaining about someone explaining an alternative ad-free search. Just think about that for a moment.

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  • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also, if we’re being frank, DDG’s results are damn near useless half the time.

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    • _pete_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hard disagree with that, DDG searches are accurate about 90% of the time that I use it (which as a web dev is quite a lot) if they aren’t hitting Google with the same term rarely wields any better results.

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      • governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve had the same experience as you. The vast majority of the time, I can get the results that I want.

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    • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It also doesn’t allow you to actually exclude keywords. Which can be utterly infuriating if you’re looking for a specific entry in a franchise or a lesser used definition of something.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just handing your search off to Bing, and Microsoft just does what it does.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      DDG pays Bing to use their API. DDG makes money by placing ads in the results.

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