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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months agoI 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.
OpenStars@startrek.website 10 months ago
Tbf, do those sketchy sites also show up with Google?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 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.
OpenStars@startrek.website 10 months ago
So maybe that’s the genius of DDG - you skip right past the predatory SEO-optimized sites straight away to the predatory sketchy ones:-D.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
LOL! Yeah I’m paranoid enough about buying from strange sites that it’s not a problem, and frankly I expect the AI generated SEO optimized spam to be more likely to be riddled with malware.