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I've ditched Google Search for DuckDuckGo a while back: first for privacy, but the more I used the more I realized that for some reason the results of DDG are just better than the ones of Google. I still use Google for super-specific things that I know DDG might now have indexed
Example: product model -mercadolibre
Trying to not be a pure Google hater here but I can expect a lot of their products will become shittier (in terms of U X) in the next few years. It’s what happens to every web property after they have their insane period of growth. Now in order to continue growing without naturally adding users, they will have to get more $$$ per user. In order to do that, they will need better/more ads. In order to do that the UI/se…
Trying to not be a pure Google hater here but I can expect a lot of their products will become shittier (in terms of U X) in the next few years. It’s what happens to every web property after they have their insane period of growth. Now in order to continue growing without naturally adding users, they will have to get more $$$ per user. In order to do that, they will need better/more ads. In order to do that the UI/se…
This is the sad truth. We are lucky that we have alternatives for search engines. Too bad there isn't any real alternative to youtube.
Yes, over the last six weeks the results you would normally find in the first page are now on page two or three. Search results for previous searches where I know the response corpus are significantly degraded. Search quality has been falling pretty steadily over the last couple years.
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This is the sad truth. We are lucky that we have alternatives for search engines. Too bad there isn't any real alternative to youtube.
But on YouTube you could pay for it and it's actually worth it in terms of time. Think about how much time you waste watching ads. Just my opinion. I would pay for a search engine that is useful and ad free.
Still gets the job done. Compare that to Facebook and Messenger where the UI is a total torture.
So initially, 2 or 3 years ago, I'd regularly use this feature and get better results. But over the years I came to realize that often then Google results were no better and even sometimes worse than the DDG results.
Still, for some things like longer quotes (error msgs) out of obscure forum pages or queries that are questions, Google does better, but almost everything else, DDG is at least just as good.
Google search over the past 5+ years: result quality getting worse overall; relevant results pushed further and further below ads/sponsored (now on page 2); privacy issues wider and deeper. I recall being amazed at the seeming clairvoyance of their search results up to about 2014. It seems like when they reorganized under Alphabet, the division of responsibility became sharper. Alphabet to Google: you are an _Adverti…
Bing is not upto mark but my office browser default is edge and Bing. Well somebody has to feed that MS machine learning search bot....
Quality of Google search been dropping...