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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

My wife and I were looking up a specific calendar. The search query wasn't particularly complicated and very clear. In Google, the first result was a 2023 version of the calendar, and the rest of the results were completely useless. In Duck Duck Go, the calendar we wanted was the top result. I can't imagine what it's like to use Google for a search that's actually complicated.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Idk, I use DDG as my default, but I find myself adding !g to many queries after checking out the first page of results; so much so that my brain has made such a strong connection to "!g -> better results" that I often find myself automatically typing it in Google as well when my results are unsatisfactory.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does !g cause DuckDuckGo to search through Google's search results - and if so does DDG do a better job of prioritizing the relevant ones? I've used DDG for a couple years but I didn't know that syntax.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    !g just redirects you to Google search. DDG itself is just Bing with extra marketing. If you want Google+cleanup you have to use Kagi, which gathers its results by combining different sources.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    And yet the very link you're saying this under is essentially about how much better Google is than DDG or Bing. 😅 Just saying, the headline is garbage, while Google got worse, DDG and Bing (both also analyzed) got worser, faster, harder.

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