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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by psyc on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:54AM (#16390441)
Long ago, when I still thought of Google as a good company that made good decisions for its users, I never had the impression that I'd done an exhaustive web search until I searched on Google. Now, searching Google always gives me the impression that I'm searching a heavily filtered, AI-curated subset of the web. I switched to DDG recently, and so far the results give me that impression that I'm searching 'the whole web' or something like it. I suppose it's inevitable that Google was ruined by becoming so enormous, having to be all things to everybody, especially its shareholders.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by nicolas_t on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:05AM (#16390489)
I love DDG but the problem is that google is still the best whenever I want to search something that's not in English or that's localized. So I still use google for that.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by Kagerjay on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:19AM (#16392461)
I use DDG when I want nonlocalized results that aren't as biased

But most times I want information tailored specific to my issues so google is better for me 90% of the time.

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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by lostmsu on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:59AM (#16390942)
Try Yandex if it is available in your language.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by OldArrow on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:12AM (#16391533)
How is Yandex any better then Google?
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday February 16, 2018 @08:30AM (#16392154)
Hmm, I get pretty good DDG search results in Japanese. I assume you're searching in your target language, rather than search terms in English with the name of your desired language tacked on?
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by nicolas_t on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:43AM (#16392617)
To be fair, DDG is actually quite decent in Japanese but when searching in French I find that it's often lacking. I think it's mostly that French is not dissimilar enough from English for the search engine to pick up on it sometimes.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:51AM (#16392675)
It might also have something to do with more French speakers knowing English than Japanese speakers knowing English.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by snag on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:46AM (#16391447)
also recent news. google still way above ddg on minutes old news.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by staplers on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:03PM (#16393743)
The easiest way to view how wrongly Google has strayed is to search for something like "First Singer Songwriter". Google automates a rich card to say "Charles Trenet 1938" while showing an image of Woody Guthrie..

It's generating its own fake news at this point.

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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by walshemj on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:16PM (#16395056)
And its ignoring the long history of folk protest song eg "the world turnd upside down" which is a ECW protest song.

Oh and I forgot the medieval Chanson which is ever earlier.

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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by decasteve on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:59PM (#16394859)
Long long ago, I used to use Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek, etc., and then I discovered AltaVista and I felt the similarly. The algorithms and relevance wasn't as good as what Google eventually came up with, but it felt like AltaVista had results that its contemporaries weren't getting.

DDG is starting to feel a bit like AltaVista in that regard.

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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by bamboozled on Friday February 16, 2018 @07:58AM (#16391982)
DDG is mostly just Bing results in case you're unaware.
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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by SparkyMcUnicorn on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:49AM (#16392659)
They use "over 400 sources" for results.

Most of their links come from their own webcrawler, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.

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Re:Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results by johnward on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:42AM (#16393567)
TIL webcrawler still exists.
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