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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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[โ€“] cantstopthesignal 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically I find ChatGPT pretty good for certain types of searching.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

For me, its only finding stuff thats really hard to google, like concepts or meme templates.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is great for when what you're looking for is the proper search term.
If I don't know what term to google, I can describe what I'm looking for and then nudge the bot in the right direction till it spits out the term.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Exactly! If I don't exactly know what I'm trying to find, its useful.