Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by int_19h on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:45PM (#22400409)

Google search results have been deteriorating in the past couple of years. It feels like the algorithm has been deliberately tweaked to produce larger quantities of less relevant results - it will often substitute words for "synonyms" that are much broader in scope, to the point of rendering the query pointless. I can't help but think that the purpose is to then show more "relevant" ads.

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Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by QuinnWilton on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:59PM (#22400475)

Even so, the deteriorated results I get from Google tend to be better than what I get anywhere else. I have DDG set as my default engine, and frequently need to fallback on Google.

I wish I could say DDG was as good or better, but outside of the privacy perspective, that unfortunately hasn't been my experience.

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Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by FalconSensei on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:22PM (#22400840)

Unfortunately, there's no way DDG could compete with Google without any tracking/history as google has.

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Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by ProZsolt on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:01PM (#22406482)

Once I had great Google Fu. I could find really niche topics. Currently, it's completely useless for that. If it's not something that many people want to find, you cant find it.

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Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by int_19h on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:29PM (#22409128)

You can still pull it off, but it requires copious quoting to ensure no substitutions or removals from the query.

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