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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (12 children)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

...........Oh, sorry.

Hell no. If anything, it's gotten worse.

In their defense, however, it's probably largely not their fault. In my admittedly one-person-sample-size experience, 90% of the searchable Web is either Reddit threads or articles, and with Reddit going officially with Google (meaning DDG doesn't catch as many Reddit threads as they used to), that leaves most of the searchable Web being articles. Because SEO has to ruin everything.

So, it's not really that DDG is shitty (mostly), but that all searches are shitty. Though, with the whole Google-and-Reddit thing, I find Google's results are noticeably less shitty (though still shitty).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I feel the same except Google is worse due to higher number of ads in results and most SEO prioritizes Google over Bing meaning more Google results are AI spam articles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I feel the same except Google is worse due to higher number of ads in results

I generally don't see ads due to uBlock Origin. Or am I just not noticing them? Lol.

and most SEO prioritizes Google over Bing meaning more Google results are AI spam articles.

I will give you that. But I find that's the case with DDG too which is why I'm having to rely more and more on search operators like site:.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I generally don't see ads due to uBlock Origin. Or am I just not noticing them? Lol.

I'm talking about the results as ads(paid for result ranking). Not as much a thing in DDG but google, they're awful and you get maybe 2 results a page that aren't paid promotion.

Freya Holmer did a good video on AI/SEO i think touches a little on this...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Oh that.

Yeaaaah that gets kind of annoying I imagine...

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