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A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, I tried for a long time to use DuckDuckGo, but honestly the results are worse than Google, even given the present day enshittified state of Google search. And it eventually just became too annoying.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I use DDG and what solved the problem for me are the "bangs". Not satisfied with the results? Add !g or !b to try another search engine.

    Want to look at up at wikipedia? add !wiki? google scholar? !gsc . Super convenient, so I don't really care that much anymore how crap the search engine is because I can use ddg as a searching "hub".

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