Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable

• dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yes, and DDG has really been degrading over the last few months in quality of results imo.

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  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I noticed this as well. It’s a shame as I still use it as my daily search driver.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ll be honest, DDG has never blown me away and I’ve been using it for roughly 5 years. It’s not awful or anything, but maybe once every month or two I need to resort to Google because it can’t find something. I’m absolutely willing to sacrifice some quality for privacy in the general case, though.

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    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yes, it has never been the best in terms of relevance or depth of index. But lately when I do searches for something like “cherry shrimp aquarium water quality requirements” I’ve been overwhelmed by AI-written SEO blogs. Where google still pulls up results from forums, reddit, other relevant actual humans talking.

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• Xabis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yes.

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