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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] Varyk 156 points 1 month ago (48 children)

they're pretty bad, but ddg at least feels like I'm getting actual results.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Yeah DDG is great. The only thing I find is its not good at local results but a quick !g on the end gets me the local results im looking for.

[–] Varyk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

oh, good tip. I didn't know about that.

you tack !g to the end of whatever the resulting search URL is?

[–] reev 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can be anywhere in the search.

"cute dogs !g" "!g cute dogs" "cute !g dogs"

Those all work the same, though clearly one is more cursed than the others. They have those for a bunch of other sites as well, for example if you want to search YouTube specifically/directly you can use !yt but I can't kick the habit of just going to those sites first and then searching directly on there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yes DDG Bangs are a great fast way of getting around the web. Works really well with LibRedirect. Here's a Full List of DDG Bangs.

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