Yup. I constantly found myself appending !g for important queries that I needed an answer for right then and now. Google has stopped providing that commodity. It’s almost never worth it anymore to fall back to Google.
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Pechente@feddit.de 6 months agoMy DuckDuckGo experience has surprisingly been more useful.
Yeah, right!? I remember that one or two years ago DDG was consistently worse than Google but recently Google’s quality has dropped off a cliff. Now when I don’t get the desired result and switch to Google, the results are usually just as bad or worse.
Opisek@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 6 months ago
[deleted]tja@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What? Why do you think that?
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No it has a partnership with bing. So sadly now it is mostly a bing clone.
smort@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The only time google gets me better results than DDG now is if I have a really vague question, like “movie where the guy wears a trash bag on his leg and has a piña colada on the train to Milwaukee”
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
And super specific queries?
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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
For me it’s programming issues. I guess devs know that doing SEO would shoot themselves in the foot.
ignism@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Could you elaborate? You’re saying you’re going to google for programming issues, but at the same time devs don’t do SEO?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Sure. What I mean is that when I search for issues in duck duck go, I don’t see relevant results. But then I put “!g” and what I want (usually stack overflow or GitHub) comes to the top.
So it makes sense that programming sites do tags and keywords properly to optimize things for the user instead of trying promote their site no matter what.
At least that’s my guess anyway.