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

• MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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