• LughOPMA
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    449 months ago

    Google’s search page has got noticeably worse in recent years, for a long list of reasons - here’s another indication it’s going to get even worse. I find myself using Duckduckgo more and more - it has its problems, but they are not as bad.

      • @mholiv@lemmy.world
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        69 months ago

        +1 for Kagi.

        I paid to try it out for a month and it’s totally worth it. It’s by far better than duck duck go or bing. You can even promote and demote sites in your search results. No more pinterest and lots more wiki entries thanks to that.

      • @Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
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        19 months ago

        Hey I’m gonna give this a shot. I’m super willing to pay for a service I use every day if it removes ads, improves results, and increases my privacy.

        How many searches do you usually burn through a month? Not sure I love the prospect of keeping track of monthly usage but unlimited is twice as much money.

        • @reev@sh.itjust.works
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          19 months ago

          I’d recommend trying the $5/m plan and then if you find yourself hitting the limit the unlimited one recently got reduced to $10/m from $25/m.

      • LughOPMA
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        219 months ago

        Yes, they’ll have problems too, but will they be as bad?

        The issue in this example is that the results were also SEO optimized for Google. These days Google’s results just seem liked paid placements or stuff SEO engineered to appear there.

        Duckduckgo is far from perfect, but it seems better than Google at returning organic results.

    • Nobsi
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      19 months ago

      DDG is Bing btw. Just to rub some salt in that age old Bing meme.

  • @Mininux@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    today’s search results are horrible, there are ai generated articles that just happen to contain your question but barely answer it, and also websites that copy stackoverflow and others content (and eventually translate it VERY badly)

    • LughOPMA
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      9 months ago

      I wish someone would develop a search engine that only used a few thousand top curated information sources - wikipedia & so on. I’m sick of wasting my time on SEO spam.

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        I wish someone would develop a search engine that only used a few thousand top curated information sources - wikipedia & so on. I’m sick of wasting my time on SEO spam.****

        And just like that we are back to 1997 (the year before google launched)

        Pretty much all the search engines were shit if you were looking for anything really specific.

        Honestly, starting with wikipedia is my go to search these days.

      • @agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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        39 months ago

        Interesting idea.

        I’ve been playing with Kagi lately. It isn’t curated but the results are usually better than Google and there’s no ads because it’s a paid service.

    • Kbin_space_program
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      69 months ago

      The best ones are Baldurs Gate 3 “Airticles” that copied information from the Fandom wiki, which copied from the beta version of the actual wiki.

  • Cornpop
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    39 months ago

    You actually can uncook a cooked egg though.