Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

• Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks

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  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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• Kraiden@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve turned to devdocs.io for my API documentation needs, which saves me the step of searching at all.

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