Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse

Re:Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results ... by miloignis on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:51PM (#39032549)

I'll throw in my recommendation for Kagi! Happily paying user. Perhaps my best recommendation is when I am having trouble finding something and tag !g onto my term to use Google instead (a reflex from using DuckDuckGo), Kagi will happily take me to Google where the results are, every time I've done it, much worse.

Kagi is exactly what I want my search engine to be, and feels like what Google used to be, to me.

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Re:Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results ... by golf_mike on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:01PM (#39032674)

I second this wholeheartedly. At first I was skeptical to get a subscription but to be liberated from the big G AND have excellent search is just worth every penny.

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Re:Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results ... by itsdrewmiller on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:42PM (#39036914)

Dan Luu tested Kagi and found it no better than alternatives, but that it has the most inexplicably diehard users out of all the major options out there:

https://danluu.com/seo-spam/

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Re:Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results ... by miloignis on Thursday January 18, 2024 @10:37AM (#39043040)

That's pretty interesting - I'm able to replicate his results, even though they don't match my own experience.

I think it might be because I search for different stuff - for more technical subjects, I get better results. (A tiny example - searching "python dict" gives my python.org as the #1 result on Kagi, but the #1 result on Google is w3schools and python.org is #2)

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