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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by tome on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:20AM (#31423900)
Kagi is jaw-droppingly amazing. With Google search quality declining, Bing being on average 95% as good as Google, and DuckDuckGo being 90% as good, I was doubting there was any way that search engines would ever improve. Kagi has removed that doubt completely. I ask for stuff and it finds it. I couldn't believe there could be such a useful product.
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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by more_corn on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:08PM (#31424471)
Doesn’t DuckDuckGo use bing for the search backend?
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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by tome on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:50PM (#31425613)
Apparently it uses Bing plus some secret sauce although in my experience the results are a bit worse than pure Bing. Having said that I have not performed a rigorous study, this is just my guess from using all these search engines over a prolonged period.
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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @02:16PM (#31425898)
It was mostly Bing and Yandex. The latter was responsible for the odd Russian language results you'd get at times but presumably produced English results as well.
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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by davoneus on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:46PM (#31424914)
Bing may be that good for some, but every time I use it it stinks and I end up back on Google. Same for DDG. Then again, my queries tend to be pretty specific and are probably not a typical use case.
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