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It shouldn't be too hard to achieve what Google were good at before. Their recent search results for me (last 6-12 months) have been so far removed from what I
by bilekas 2y ago
It shouldn't be too hard to achieve what Google were good at before.
Their recent search results for me (last 6-12 months) have been so far removed from what I'm searching it felt like a meme.
Even after rephrasing things, more details, special quotations etc that everyone knows as the 'search tricks' the results are terrible.
- bayindirh 2y agoI'm using Kagi for quite some time. It's invisible to me. I search, get 30ish high quality results per search, and I'm a happy camper. No ads, no seo grafting, nothing. Moreover, I can block sites and customize my own search results. This feels good. When I first started using Kagi, it felt like leaving a closed building and stepping out to open air.
- eitland 2y agoAlmost same here: One of the few software tools I care to pay for except Jetbrains. Only in practice I almost never use filter or block features, because Kagi does out-of-the-box what we always wanted to do our selves in Google: block spam sites. The ranking also seems to be better for some reason somehow. The funny thing is it doesn't feel like a step forward, but rather like a step back to Google ca 2009 - 2012 somewhere.
- bilekas 2y agoI’ve heard good things about it actually I must go check it out now. Thanks for reminding me. I don’t mind paying for things that save me time.
- beAbU 2y agoI moved to DDG a couple of years ago, and initially, I found myself often using the `!g` switch, but I honestly can't recall the last time I needed to do that. Only when I'm shopping do I find the goog to be a slightly better tool for finding products sold by niche suppliers. I honestly think google's monopoly on search at this time is 100% powered by momentum, there is almost no other reason to use it over something like DDG or hell, even Bing!
- Voultapher 2y agoBasically exactly the same thing here. It used to be that google had the better results, but DDG got a little better and google a lot more shit, so here we are I'm pre-filtering what I look for.
- nickpsecurity 2y agoSame here. DDG usually works fine for me. Even more so if using advanced techniques like quotes for keywords and - to remove junk.
- davemp 2y agoI’ve been on ddg for years too, but I’d say their results quality has dropped as well. I haven’t really been happy with either recently.