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What do you all search with? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I've mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with "site:reddit.com", but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well...?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I personally like duck duck go, the results are generally pretty good, and if they aren't, it's easy to search on other engines using DDG's bangs. You just type "!g search term" and you can search on Google, and there's a bunch more, like !w for Wikipedia, !aur for the arch user repo etc etc

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

+1 for DDG

And thank you for reminding about bangs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did I not know about that already? I've been on DDG for a years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are a lot of bangs as well.

Try !loblaws maple syrup as I see you're from Canada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

O damn! That's bound to come in handy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And to see if there is a bang already for a website you use often, use !bang lemmy or whatever to see the list of !bangs for that site

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only issue I have with DDG is the news tab being filled to the brim with MSN.com. I get that DDG uses Bing search but it's super annoying having to put "-site:msn.com" behind your query every so often.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It even has the Haskell docs lol