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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
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For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (22 children)

What are those? DDG, Bing, Ecosia etc. are all not really better than Google. I haven‘t tried Kagi yet, mostly because it costs money.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    I'm using Qwant and it gives me better results than Google. Even Startpage does and it's using Google behind the scenes.

    Google managed to fuck up their personalization so much it makes the results worse (it's almost like they only really care about tailoring the ads /s). And I'm suspecting it's by design, if the results suck the users are more likely to either press the ads or go through more result pages, therefore seeing more ads.

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

    I am actually kinda ok with DDG, but the results are.. not always very great and the second page is filled with weird websites related to my location..
    Maybe i should try both Kagi and Searx

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

    Kagi went to bed with Brave, and when people protested they ignored it

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

    What do you mean with "went to bed"?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Here's a Masto thread explaining a bit the polemic

    TL;DR: They became partners with Brave, when people pointed out Brave's objectionable politics they responded... poorly (still read the thread, it has much more info)

    Quick edit: Was pointed at this, looks like it's even worse and the Kagi owner himself might be very objectionable too

    Second edit: And it keeps getting worse, of course they had to get into AI...

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    i was struggling with DDG too, but in another post i saw someone recommend searx and it is actually really good.

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

    You can actually try kagi for free. 100 searches/month should be enough for you to decide if it's worth the money to you.

    (Not affiliated; just a happy user)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Kagi went to bed with Brave, and when people protested they ignored it

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree it does suck in general One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)

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