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What search engine do you use? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google. I usually find what I want with it, although it has gotten worse over time.

I tried DDG a few years ago and only found it worse. Like, there was a clear performance impact with me using DDG vs me using Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same. Once every few months I give DDG another try for a week or two, but between their strictly inferior and more spam riddled results and the absolutely grotesquely bad Apple Maps they integrate, it's back to Google pretty quickly.

It's like that study found out: Yeah, Google results have objectively gotten worse. But so have Bing's and by extension DDG's, and more so than Google's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

absolutely grotesquely bad Apple Maps they integrate

You can use !maps query to workaround that. I typically end up using DDG as a frontend to other sites through its bangs syntax.

E.g.

!maps x location to y location

But yeah, if normal DDG results don't work for you it's probably not a huge gain.