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Google doesn't work anymore ? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's your opinion? Does google really "not work" anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it's own way i feel...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does anybody else find when using DDG for research that it's waaay too aggressive about "correcting" your query to something more mundane?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I switched to startpage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't it just query Google behind the scenes, though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, but DDG uses Bing. I want to switch to Kagi or start a SearXNG server though once I get around to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh. TIL!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have been using Kagi for a month. Really liking it so far! I just subscribed to their basic plan. Much better results than DDG.