I use DDG when coding and generally find it to be a bit nicer, but from the article it sounds like they're prone to the same issues. Anecdotally, I have noticed non-code queries do seem to be similarly crap
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ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 9 months agoI use DuckDuckGo, you can configure it as your default search engine in Firefox.
Kraiden@kbin.social 9 months ago
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve turned to devdocs.io for my API documentation needs, which saves me the step of searching at all.
Z3k3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I find myself hitting the same issues with ddg as with Google. The 1st page trys to sell me the thing I want info on
tiredofsametab@kbin.social 9 months ago
I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 9 months ago
You can turn sponsor off in setting or use start.duckduckgo.com
I find their ad is much more clearly marked than google.