That explains why my DDG searches have been less than helpful… it’s just as unhelpful as Bing. I usually find myself trying other search engines, but run back to Google when I can’t find anything relevant to the problem I’m trying to solve (most of my googling is tech help stuff).
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Xabis@lemmy.world 8 months agoI don’t get why everyone espouses ddg but shits on bing when bing is the underlying source.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 8 months ago
Xabis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly.
As much as I’ve seen threads here on lemmy complaining about how terrible Google search is, Bing isn’t any better.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 8 months ago
DDG is hit and miss for me, its my main SE but if i dont get results i want i switch to google. I have actually searched a website with almost the exact URL (when i wasnt sure about the end of the address) and it gave me zero results for that site, so it definately has its shortcomings.
And bing is fantastic, for video search… Porn.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Because you’re in a bubble of “big corporations bad”. Not uncommon on the fediverse for obvious reasons.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a fairly reliable truth.
Xabis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t really subscribe to that mentality personally. Some are and some are not. Just like people.