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

dunz@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rdri@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for your visit
  Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country.

  And no way to set my country.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you could set your country with a vpn 😎

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    • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.

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  • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires”

  My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider.

  Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.

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  • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?

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    • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the biggest problem, can’t even get straight data and ads separately. Now the articles are the ads, and SEO/adspace has made search results even less useful.

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      • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Comments are the ads now too.

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• baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately.

  github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/…/342

  I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.

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  • maness300@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.

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    • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They actually explained that

      Android browsers must use the Chromium engine.

      Unfortunately, Mozilla GeckoView is still less secure than Chromium on Android.

      probably referring to the lack of pre-process site isolation on firefox.

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• Toldry@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo

  just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up

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