So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It’s been some years.
I just can’t believe how poor it’s results are, and how it’s trying to suggest things it think I might also want (and failing miserably).
I just assumed ddg would be the lesser, but I use it for privacy. Turns out I’m wrong.
How long has Google been this bad?
since it becomes a monopoly
It might be my localization, but it doesn’t seem that bad to me, and I generally use duckduckgo. But forced localization is enough.
Startpage (has Google search results) or Google with private browsing haven’t given me the new AI suggestions so far
I use !g if I’m searching for local stores around me but that’s pretty much all google search can do well. Oh and images but ddg images are good in most cases.
I use bing for porn. Its great for porn.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Read for the exact timeline
That is an amazing read. Thank you!
Insane. Thanks for sharing.
I did 2 searches yesterday that gave me crap on Google and then I tried Bing and it gave me what I was looking for on the first page.
^This is for anyone who doesn’t know, click on the web button in the “More” drop down list after making a search to get the old style search results instead of the new ones. People mentioned this in the thread earlier so I thought I’d make it clear.
It’s only been about a year really, but the Enshittification was logarithmic and got twice as bad every day
Always.
I think SearXNG is best.
I keep seeing this and I tried it but I couldn’t get great results consistently. Maybe I need to spend some more time looking into it again
It may be the instance you used or something else I’m not aware of, but I always get great results.
The only thing is sometimes an instance dies and I need to find and start using another one, but it’s not a big deal. You can find instances here.
i have the opposite problem. ive aways had to go back to google becasue DDG sucks so hard… and now i find out its because its bing-based. awesome.
Same here. I switched to DDG last year, but had to go back within two weeks; it was just too annoying.
Google search results have indeed gotten pretty bad, but I’ve yet to see anyone surpass them.
Hahaha, I ~just came after a search using g**gle due to ddgo being down, I noticed the “web” search is no longer the default (as it was discussed some days ago here).
Google seems to have a huge grip on people and they don’t seem to notice (or act against) the terrible services of google search…
They didn’t make that the default. What was discussed was a way to make it default (add https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 as a custom search engine)
And the comments on those posts said we should actually use DDG instead lol
Google started getting really bad about a year ago
You have infinitely other options. search.brave.com, yandex, bing. And probably a lot of cool ones I don’t know about.
All of them search more accurately your directly requested phrase instead of a blurry interpretation of your sentiment.
