Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by krisgee on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:09PM
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I use Duck for most searches now but I find if I'm trying to ask a question or search weird error codes or something Google is still better for that. I still use duck to input but use the g! command.
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by DudeIsJammin on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:02PM
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I think google has stayed the same for the most part. But because they want to crack down on misinformation, and things of that nature they have said recently that when it comes to political topics/news they want to stick to "trusted" sources. That's why if you search for a political topic on google/youtube, you're probably not going to get many non mainstream sources
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by ogre_codes on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:00PM
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Google got too polluted with adverts it became intolerable. More or less across the board.
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by stanferder on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:27PM
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Someone should start a company called "Google 2010".
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by djsumdog on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:32PM
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I just recently realized that myself. I'd add "!g" to my searches about 1/3 of the time. That's been going way down lately. I'm probably more at 10%~15% on Google, but the majority has switched to DDG.
That being said, I still wish there were more alternatives. I have a lot of RSS feeds and there are big lists of tech blog RSS feeds. At some point I just want to index all of those so I can search for recent tends in the blogs of independent tech people rather than the big articles.
Google's results just seem less and less useful for the kinds of searches I do.
A recent example: There was a news event near where I live earlier this week. It made national headlines briefly. Yesterday I wanted to know if there was anything new about it. So I hit the duck with my search query and it showed newspaper web sites that had updated the story about three hours before, and some TV web sites that had stories from the previous night.
I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything, so I did the same search in Google. Big G's results were all at least three days old, and most were re-posts of re-posts of re-posts published on random web sites on the other side of the planet.
So, I continue to use the duck. And I've learned a lesson that I really shouldn't second-guess myself and think that maybe Google, with its trillion dollars to spend, isn't any better after all.