Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by danielrpa on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:56PM
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I use DDG because it's better than Google in my scenarios. Yes, Google is often better for "hard" searches, but actually DDG tends to give me what I want, not some SEO monstrosity, on my normal searches.
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by kenhwang on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:19AM
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Even on my hard searches, Google gives me a bunch of useless SEO and ads. It's like we're past peak search and we're slowly going to stop being able to find things on the internet.
Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by xref on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:23AM
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Everyone has anecdotes, I’m a DDG user and the results are nearly always worse/more stale than I got before ditching google two years ago (still have to !g a lot) but hey, at least it’s not google all the time.
Google having a decade of my search history just makes for really relevant results, even if I don’t like the company’s practices.
Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by wraptile on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:06AM
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Bangs are the killer feature for me and I'm surprised google hasn't stolen it yet. Just kinda illustrates how entrenched Google's search engine is that it keeps removing features rather than adding them and still is number one search engine in the world.