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DDG is a mediocre search engine. A mediocre search engine is still much better than whatever Google's become. Honestly, the answer is so often a little toy se
by parrellel 4mo ago
DDG is a mediocre search engine. A mediocre search engine is still much better than whatever Google's become.
Honestly, the answer is so often a little toy search like Marginalia or going straight to the website in question now, its frightening.
- Barbing 4mo agoAre we both blocking Google ads and scrolling past the AI summary? Their business practices are just the worst. But are the first 10 blue links they show you usually bad? (Like you know that one of those 10 should be the exact thing you want, so you decide to rely on another search engine instead, & the alternative search succeeds where Google failed)
- jeltz 4mo agoYes, I am. And these days Google has become about as bad as DDG. And not because DDG has become better.
- Barbing 4mo agoHave read this comment before multiple times, even a year or two ago. Hence my “unreasonable” demand for screenshots if someone has the minutes to script it. - Hmm, really should be a live site to track over time... Can make that and Show [Three People On] HN! (Google could give better results to those unloyal to them, as one example, so testing needed! We could be getting wildly different results or just have starkly different usage tendencies, there’s just no way I could disagree with so many of y’all on something this basic assuming no DDG astroturfing or anything unless we’re looking at things differently one way or another)
- jeltz 4mo agoWaiting for your screenshots. Do the legwork yourself first. And obviously there is no astroturfing here from DDG. That you could have seen from a tiny look at my profile. I have a pretty public persona on the internet.
- Barbing 4mo agoThanks, and important to say beyond not accusing them I was _definitely_ not accusing you!
- carlosjobim 4mo agoDDG is unusable compared to Google for searches not in English.