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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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[โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I do not think so in my experience. I'm a software developer and a lot of my job is searching solutions to problems. Every year or two I'll try DDG because I love the concept but it never works as well for me. Putting the same search query into Google yeilds actual results for me more often than DDG does.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have the same situation. DDG has a feature where you can write "!g query" and search for "query" on Google. I use that as a fallback whenever DDG fails to yield good results - it's super easy!

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