Comment on You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  DuckDuckGo finds some things. I’m no expert.

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  • sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but those are just privacy protective Bing results, right?

    duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources/

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve heard people say that the answer is no, but in looking into it just now myself it looks like rather it is sometimes yes as well.

      Basically the best way to describe it seems to be that it is “NOT Google, and MOSTLY does not want to be FULLY Bing (but still is somewhat, they’re wanting to work on it, but to be clear they do have embedded Microsoft trackers that they are forced to leave in due to their licensing agreement)”.

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would NOT use it for shopping, I tried that recently and got a ton of really sketchy looking sites with way too cheap products that had no internet presence before this month. This might be more pronounced if you search specific product model numbers like I was rather than general terms.

    I’ve had it be mostly okay on other stuff. I use it over Google but mostly because I don’t want to pay for a search engine.

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tbf, do those sketchy sites also show up with Google?

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      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d have to repeat the search to check again, but I don’t remember seeing the same sites when I repeated the search on Google, at least not on the first page in the top few spots the way it was on DDG.

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m giving searx a try. There’s a list of public instances here: searx.space

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m disappointed with the number of brave downvotes you are receiving. Recommend you stop supporting Brave. Kagi has been really great, I’ve never looked back. I value ux, search, and privacy enough to feel it’s worth the price.

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• Buck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  qwant.com , a french privacy first search engine that has alright search results but great privacy control

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Duckduckgo has turned into to a google clone at this point i’ve found - you get pretty much identical results with the added aggravation you can’t exclude keywords.

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• Fixbeat@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use Duck Duck Go. It seems okay to me, but I admit that I haven’t tried anything else.

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