Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn’t see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
    53·
    6 months ago

    Same. Once every few months I give DDG another try for a week or two, but between their strictly inferior and more spam riddled results and the absolutely grotesquely bad Apple Maps they integrate, it’s back to Google pretty quickly.

    It’s like that study found out: Yeah, Google results have objectively gotten worse. But so have Bing’s and by extension DDG’s, and more so than Google’s.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      absolutely grotesquely bad Apple Maps they integrate

      You can use !maps query to workaround that. I typically end up using DDG as a frontend to other sites through its bangs syntax.

      E.g.

      !maps x location to y location

      But yeah, if normal DDG results don’t work for you it’s probably not a huge gain.