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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€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Wow, it has been some time since I used duck duck go. On my phone I have bing for searches as it is convenient with chatGPT integration (which tbh I only use when coding, for which I have copilot now baked into VScode). On my laptop and work station I use Arc. Its sexy af and really makes a man wonder about himself. I will have to revisit DDG. I do remember enjoying it though only for enhanced privacy. Feature wise it just seemed exactly what chrome was offering

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

DuckDuckGo AKA Bing is complete dog doo. When you are looking for news it only tries to shove in the Microsoft MSN news page. The algorithm manipulation in favor of Western MSM bias is even heavier than Google. When you search certain terms it refuses to show articles containing those exact terms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah saying "DDG is as good as Google" means saying that DDG is worthless garbage lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

So far its still less bloated

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DDG does the job. Hopefully, I won't have to switch engines soon.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

isn't it just a bing wrapper?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Last time I checked, it matched Bing results exactly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yahoo is Bing too

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I use StartPage because it does image search, and none of the AI BS.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I use it for almost everything. I only resort to Google if I can't find what I'm looking for, which is rare and typically it's something obscure. Google has also steadily made their service worse over the years. I don't feel like I am missing much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

No. DDG still puts less priority in small blogs over Reddit posts. All bigger search engines put way too much stock & rank in corpo social media.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

100%. I have not used google in about roughly 15 years. DDG has been my daily driver since 2010

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've had to use !g way too much lately, so no.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Better usually in my experience. Google is mostly SEO-sludge anyway. Though sometimes when you need something very specific Google is better but that gap has been pretty much closed during 7+ years Iโ€™ve used DDG.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use Startpage and it feels like I always get the results I want even when I don't use perfect prompts. Just recently I got a three month free trial for Kagi and the results were better than google in my opinion, or at least less cluttered with "possibly related things" that are just ads in the end.

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