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    thx, duck duck joey (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    As a Linux nerd and Privacy/Open source advocate it's tough to admit. But I can't use DuckDuckGo. I work as a Linux Sysadmin and Google is the only search engine reliably returning good results (especially on more obscure topics). With DuckDuckGo I've often noticed that it will simply "drop" words from you search terms (i.e. if you search "yellow computer chair" it might just show you any kind of yellow chair or something like that) which makes it unusable for precise searches.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

    That's so weird, I decided to completely drop Google as my primary a while back because by the end, the only search results I got was literally only spam and SEO spam/adware links on anything I ever searched. DDG didn't have any of this. Could search how to do something on a Foss project running on my server and 80% of the results were spam links and the other weren't even relevant to the search. For me Google took a shit, Bing was slow and DDG was just a good in-between.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    you may want to try out kagi.

    google get worse, because they have a strong incentive to deliver ads, and a weaker incentive to deliver good results (see Cory Doctorow). Kagi is a subscription service, so their only incentive is to deliver good results.

    on HN there are regularly good discussions on the topic, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852133