Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox

Re:Prevent Google from mangling search result links when cli... by soraminazuki on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:49PM (#28674488)

DDG user here, I’m not even sure most people would need g! anymore. I recently came across a Google search results page, and was surprised how unrecognizable it has become. Instead of giving me a page full of search results, it was presenting me with a page full of Google-curated content. At this point, Google is basically unusable for me as a search engine.

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Re:Prevent Google from mangling search result links when cli... by avnigo on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:37PM (#28675682)

I’m a full time DDG user, but I still use !g sometimes. For some reason DDG is not great with discussion boards like any forum, stackoverflow, reddit etc., especially if the posts are too recent.

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Re:Prevent Google from mangling search result links when cli... by mrweasel on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:03PM (#28674677)

Mostly if DDG can't find something, chances are that neither can Google. We've also reached a point where the Google result pages are now ads the first half page. Fair enough that they want/need to make money, but it seems a little excessive.

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Re:Prevent Google from mangling search result links when cli... by JohnFen on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:56PM (#28674582)

I think it's been two years since I've used the g!

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