In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click

Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by tannhaeuser on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:31PM (#26550764)

I've used DDG for years now. They give me the exact same results that Google does, all the time. And why wouldn't they when they're indexing the same web sites. Full-text search isn't rocket science, after all, and it's not like new websites with quality content have surfaced lately given the incentives. I don't even bother to cross-check Google's result anymore, something I occasionally used to do maybe two years ago.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by doix on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:48AM (#26552982)

That's interesting, whenever I search for anything programming related the results differ greatly and google always wins.

I actually switched to DDG cold-turkey and didn't use !g at all. Until I couldn't solve some problem and someone in my team said "it's the first result on google", I felt pretty stupid then. Since then I've given up and just automatically stick !g whenever I'm searching anything programming related.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by account42 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:18AM (#26566192)

> Full-text search isn't rocket science, after all

Full text search isn't, but ranking the results is - and more importantly there is no objectively best ranking.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by tannhaeuser on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:03AM (#26568122)

Yes, and Google sucks at it.

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