Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?

• Quik@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh my god, I feel this so much… Also, I think that recently got even worse, as I recently found myself switching between DDG/Google and finding both extremely bad for my query

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes!

    It think it got suddenly so much worse recently. Glad to see I’m not alone, something must’ve e changed.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know it’s being overly recommended in here, but kagi pretty much gives you exactly what you want. I’ve had very few times it’s been unable to give me my search in the first few results. Others swear by SearXNG

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    • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve recently switched to SearXNG instances on some devices, definitely seem to be getting better results

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      • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        apart from ne not having that much money laying around a the moment I’m not a fan of people having to pay for their search engine, as I’m of the opinion that such a fundamental tool to use the web should remain free

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  • starchylemming@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    does it also straight up ignore special commands like -whatever i could swear you could use that on many sites and it worked as "exclude this "

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    • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I find that it often laughs at your excluded search terms and includes them anyway

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    • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it sometimes seem to, most advanced searching still works, at least on DDG

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  google does this as well, unless you switch on verbatim mode

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    unless you switch on verbatim mode

    Which I’m just hearing about now. So clearly they don’t wnst us using it.

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