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Not necessarily everywhere, or at least not quite as bad as you're suggesting, in my experience. I used to advocate for DDG, but they've gone so far downhill t
by ravenstine 3y ago
Not necessarily everywhere, or at least not quite as bad as you're suggesting, in my experience.
I used to advocate for DDG, but they've gone so far downhill that I rarely waste my time with it. They've decided to go PG-rated everywhere even if you have safe search turned off. This is a problem because, even if they just want to block porn or illegal things, this can have an impact on legitimate academic research. And yeah, SEO trash floats to the surface, though they aren't entirely in control of this.
Kagi (which relies on Brave Search instead of Bing) has less flotsam to start with, provides lots of great tools to filter out the garbage, and is subscriber-driven instead of advertiser or investor driven.
DDG had potential, but they decided to give into moral panic and coast on their modest success instead of making substantial improvements. They also decided to pull a Mozilla and spend unnecessary effort working on a browser when they should be focusing on their core product. It'd be one thing to make a browser if their core product was actually good, but the best they are offering is a pinky-swear that your searches are private.
- the_snooze 3y ago>Bing DDG works well enough for me to be my daily driver, but it's absolute garbage for any kind of news search. Bing prioritizes MSN repost spam from dubious sources, so I'm better off going just directly to news sites I trust.
- theshrike79 3y agoI must be weird, because I very rarely search for news. I just go to the sites I trust. I think the only time I search for news (usually on Google) is to find a reliable article about a celebrity death.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoYou can actually find this rather rapidly through Wikipedia. In fact, you can identify the exact moment when the news about the death leaked, when the first editor adds it to the article. Generally, experienced editors will keep it out until a reliable source is provided, which typically happens quite quickly. In fact I've found out about a number of celebrity deaths, just by having them on my watchlist.
- sumeno 3y ago> Kagi (which relies on Brave Search instead of Bing) This is misleading. Kagi uses multiple external sources including Google and Brave as well as their own internal indexes https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
- ravenstine 3y agoAh, I was under the impression it was almost entirely the same as Brave. Thanks!