> See for example “geeksforgeeks” and similar sites, which I find to be a poor and overly verbose resource, which now dominates the top position

Google Search's and Facebook Messenger's spam filters started letting tons of garbage through at roughly the same time. I wonder if the advances in generative deep learning helped with that.

DDG usually shows a SO preview in the right hand gutter for code related searches. I guess that must be a bing feature.

It does when it works, but I’ve found it to work less often these days.

This is so depressingly true. It's why most of my Google queries are affixed with `site:stackoverflow.com` or `site:reddit.com`. I lean on this so heavily that I've setup a couple Firefox keyword bookmarks so I can type `so <query>` or `r <query>` respectively into my address bar as a shortcut.

Doing this has vastly improved troubleshooting, finding recipes or product recommendations, etc. It slices through SEO blogspam. I get genuine results, fast.