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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by kenhwang on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:42PM (#22110697)
I switch to DDG precisely because I stopped being able to quickly distinguish ads from results in Google. Even the "results" felt like ads. Now when I have to fallback onto Google, the results just feel so spammy compared to DDG.

edit: For example, I just needed to look up the current version of Scala. DDG correctly has scala-lang.org as the top result. Google has a snippet from sourabhbajaj.com (incorrectly) stating 2.10 is the current version taking up the top 1/3 of the page.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by gpanders on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:18PM (#22111697)
This thread is so enlightening. I too switched to DDG a while ago and occasionally I have to use Google for a search and your description is exactly how I felt: the Google results felt “spammy”.

I had assumed I had simply adjusted to DDG and just forgot what Google had always looked like, but this post confirms that the Google results have in fact changed.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by rijoja on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:11PM (#22112222)
yeah duck duck go is actually great for coding!
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