• commander@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve defaulted to ddg for like 2 years now. Solid. Good enough. Really what happened is that SEO optomization websites even before the AI craze made Google search so awful that ddg became just as good if not better for me than google

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      Google literally redesigned their search engine to be worse so that you would scroll through more ads to find the results you want. On average, the best result now is the fifteenth result.

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        That’s what happens when the engineers are forced out and the marketers are given control.

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      I let the default fall to DDG on some of my machines. I find they’re a better experience for 80% of searches. The rest are not handled well by any modern search engines and only Google in verbatim mode (and surprisingly Kagi) come close to delivering good results for those. I hope DDG improves and the team there sees the market forces that are essentially driving customers towards them. We don’t want AI shit, just good, non-evil, search.

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        2 days ago

        i would love a degoogled phone, but i also lose my wallet fucking everywhere around the house (I swear, it goes in one spot but then it’s time for a clown drum circle and i can’t find my wallet for a week because i cleaned the damn house) so like i have gotten used to some creature comforts recently. you know how it goes.