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I’m not sure what exactly you’re typing into the search field, but I don’t anything like this. The top 3 sites I get for a search of “minerals” are wikipedia, australian museum, and britannica. Typing in “crystals” gets me a healthline article debunking crystal healing, but the following results are some woman’s personal store and amazon. Lastly, being direct about wanting scientific articles gets me said articles…

Side note: Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists? It’s kinda bizarre to see.

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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve commented about potential Kagi astroturfing here before.

Seems likely to me.

Their trial - too short for me - felt like a private Google w/improvements.

Now, as a filthy freeloader, my default is DuckDuckGo. I am dissatisfied with the results and !bang out to Google (!g) about half the time. I pray DDG makes use of this data to improve their engine.

tl;dr astroturfing vs. bad results vs. enabling the king of adware

Gosh I need to set up SearXNG! Also “private Google” vibes. Instances here

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- lud@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Half the time?
  
  I switch to another search engine about 1 in 100
  
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Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hell, typing in “scientific data bout minerals” gets me a bunch of university geology department websites.

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zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists?

It’s a tide ad

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h3rm17@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I pretty much dislike that DDG is not opensource while preaching about privacy and stuff. But tbh no idea what Kagi is.

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SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Google results vary per person because of all the ways data is collected and assumptions are made about what you’d like to see. I believe the term is filter bubbles.

Idk if anything has changed since but a high school teacher showed us this in a computer lab. She gave us an exact phrase to type in and the search results. They were similar enough to be useful but had significant differences in what the first page showed.

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