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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve been using DDG exclusively for something like 8 years. It works great for regular text search and I use bing for image searches. I really don’t understand the reluctance of people to switch to it. To me, Google has been borderline unusable garbage for a long time.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cherry on the shit sundae was a couple months ago when Google started to require JavaScript be enabled for search.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I’ve actually never tried brave search. Which is kinda funny because I started using DDG when brave came out and it was the default search engine.

    What do you mean by slow though? Like just the webpage loading or the time it takes you to get good results? I’ve never noticed any load time, but I’ve always had a few tweaked content blockers running and that may affect my perspective.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I used it for a few years, realized that I had to use bangs every other search, and reluctantly switched back to Google. But now Google is way worse than it was, so I think I might as well try switching back again, see how it feels now.

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