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The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

For the record though, I used bing for the duration of 2023, sort of as an experiment to use the ai assistant.

Bing search is worse that Google by a long shot. I almost always gave up and used Google.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Honestly, I think almost everything else is worse than Google.

I set my default to duck duck go, and it's getting better, but I still fall back on google with some regularity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I see a lot of my friends actually use Bing through ChatGPT, and they seem to get better results than Google. That might be what Microsoft is actually optimizing Bing for

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

well, that was last year, right?
I wouldn't bet on Bing search results having gotten better since then, but I would bet on Google search results having gotten worse since then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The results of my experiment still seem to be true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Bing is even more heavily monetized and encrusted with garbage than Google is.