jezebelley@leminal.space to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoGoogle Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Findtech.slashdot.orgexternal-linkmessage-square292fedilinkarrow-up1947arrow-down114
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minus-squarebender223@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·6 months agoYeah, Google search is useless now. I’ve switched to ddg , and it’s much better. Just not having all those sponsored links helps a lot . Maybe a searx instance would be even better, but I haven’t found one that works consistently for me.
minus-squarePatch@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoDDG is largely Bing search at the backend, unless I’m much mistaken. They do value-add work around privacy, but in the basic sense of “does a DDG search return good results”, it’s largely the same as Bing.
minus-squarebender223@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agodang, I didn’t know that. But like someone in the above comments has said, maybe the use a different index?
Yeah, Google search is useless now. I’ve switched to ddg , and it’s much better. Just not having all those sponsored links helps a lot .
Maybe a searx instance would be even better, but I haven’t found one that works consistently for me.
DDG is largely Bing search at the backend, unless I’m much mistaken. They do value-add work around privacy, but in the basic sense of “does a DDG search return good results”, it’s largely the same as Bing.
dang, I didn’t know that. But like someone in the above comments has said, maybe the use a different index?