Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

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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