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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€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

So far its still less bloated

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DDG does the job. Hopefully, I won't have to switch engines soon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Wait 'til you learn that DDG's engine is Bing

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

No. DDG still puts less priority in small blogs over Reddit posts. All bigger search engines put way too much stock & rank in corpo social media.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

DuckDuckGo AKA Bing is complete dog doo. When you are looking for news it only tries to shove in the Microsoft MSN news page. The algorithm manipulation in favor of Western MSM bias is even heavier than Google. When you search certain terms it refuses to show articles containing those exact terms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah saying "DDG is as good as Google" means saying that DDG is worthless garbage lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

isn't it just a bing wrapper?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Last time I checked, it matched Bing results exactly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yahoo is Bing too

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

100%. I have not used google in about roughly 15 years. DDG has been my daily driver since 2010

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had to use !g way too much lately, so no.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Bangs, used to move the search to another site, in this case google

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Better usually in my experience. Google is mostly SEO-sludge anyway. Though sometimes when you need something very specific Google is better but that gap has been pretty much closed during 7+ years Iโ€™ve used DDG.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

I use Kagi, I really like how it's AI answer gives sources for statements.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Startpage and it feels like I always get the results I want even when I don't use perfect prompts. Just recently I got a three month free trial for Kagi and the results were better than google in my opinion, or at least less cluttered with "possibly related things" that are just ads in the end.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I switched to exclusively Kagi on my phone and it's been a pretty pleasant experience. Not perfect, but fairly serviceable. You're right, it's way less cluttered. Going back to Google can sometimes be very jarring.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not as good as google was when I was first allowed to use the internet 15+ years ago, but much better than today's google. Just so much more peace of mind to know that profit isn't what governs my search results.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

kagi still owns both of them. but there's also startpage and leta which are google wrappers if you don't want to use Google directly

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

For me they are even better than Google. But I use Qwant now.

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