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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by fullstackchris on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:20AM (#29393780)
This is particularly hilarious and ironic when considering they are really punishing for cumulative layout shift in their Lighthouse tool - to prevent exactly what you are describing from happening! Seems like Google hasn't used lighthouse on their own site!
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by dazc on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:26AM (#29393853)
Because google doesn't need to worry about such things. For most people DDG would be a much better experience - if only they knew?
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by spaniard89277 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:11PM (#29394514)
I'm using DDG for almost a year, and I'd say that DDG is slightly better because I have a bit more control. It's important when you're multilingual (common in Europe) to be able to de-localize results chose language etc.

But it isn't MUCH better. DDG is just slightly better than Google, that has become infuriating.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by pixelgeek on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:25PM (#29394724)
I use it regularly but it is getting to be unreliable for technical searches. I often have to resort to using google when trying to track down information about programming problems.
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by dazc on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:40PM (#29394954)
Agreed but when I say 'most people' I'm thinking of more mundane and everyday queries which DDG handles well enough.
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