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DuckDuckGo

• tremon 4y ago
  ...has the same problem. There have been a few years where DDG/Bing's results were better than Google's for me, but nowadays DDG gives me the same blogspam results as Google used to do. I've mostly given up on general search engines, nowadays I use only site-specific searches. That means I won't find out about new motherboards other than those from MSI and Asus, and I won't know about python tooling unless they're listed on pypi, or maybe I will know it because it once featured on HN. I've never used browser bookmarks before -- it used to be that I would remember enough about a site that I could always find it in the first few pages of search results. Nowadays, for many things I don't even bother to search; if I forgot to bookmark it, it might as well never have existed. Frankly, it sucks. The endless quest for monetization has made it so that a large part of the Internet is now no longer discoverable for me. I eagerly await the return of curated directories, either in usenet or activitypub form.
  • apple4ever 4y ago
    And its not just that: its going to the next page... and see literally the same results. It drives me crazy. The next page should be totally different results! I can go 10 pages in, and still see something from the first page!!
  • tintor 4y ago
    Might start using bookmarks again.
• zach_garwood 4y ago
  It works for me, so I switched and haven't looked back.