Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by discard11110 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:31PM
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Yes, have noticed duck duck go result quality get worse.
Anecdotally it seems they do more fuzzy match and adhere less to exact matches even when keywords or phrases are quoted.
It's been frustrating to see specificity of results decline.
Brave search has been surprisingly good for me. I actually had it find me something Google was failing to find for the first time yesterday. Normally I have to occasionally try a Google search for nuanced topics, but this time it was the opposite.
Google's unwillingness to show any results older than Taylor Swift' last breakup song made me switch to DuckDuckGo.
It was a bit rough at first, but in time Duck turned out to be just as good as Google, and sometimes better for the sorts of thing I search for.
Then, about four or five months ago, something happened to Duck, and it's gotten significantly worse. Short lists of results. More results that are off-topic than on. In the last couple of weeks, for me it's as bad as Google was before.
I'll stick with Duck because it's not trying to harvest every morsel of my life to make a quick buck. But I wonder if anyone else has noticed a very quick and very significant change in quality with their DuckDuckGo results?