Don’t forget that Duck Duck Go is even worse at it now. It will literally change your results if you go back after clicking a link.
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holycrap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think this has as much to do with Google being shit at finding stuff lately as it does llms like chatGPT
raltoid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Calyhre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can even see the decline in posts and votes before GPT became mainstream. This definitely look more like search engine failing to get rid of those cheap copycats.
zatanas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.
REdOG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…
gosling@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hyphen (-) means you don’t want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.
Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m still pissed over removing +words. Like, G+ is gone, guys, so revert that mess.
Bipta@kbin.social 1 year ago
Wait, what? On Google??
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
On Google and on Duck Duck Go too. On DDG you can’t get rid of the over-optimized websites anymore even if you use -“website name”. Luckily -site:address still works.
cschreib@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn’t noticed. I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.