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A year long study shows what you've suspected: Google Search is getting worse. (mashable.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A year long study shows what you've suspected: Google Search is getting worse.::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I stopped using google search around 2018. The reason? Their ads were serving literal virus-infected links of scams that pretend to be real companies.

Nothing has changed since.

Duckduckgo for life I guess

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I recommend reading the actual paper. DDG is actually by far the worst by their measures. Even though Google has gotten worse, it's results are still massively superior to the competition. 9% spam compared to 31% for DDG and 23% for Bing. That's a huge difference.

I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven't before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Exactly the same here.

[–] Honytawk 2 points 10 months ago

I also use DDG

But whenever I need to search more in-depth, I use perplexity.ai

It makes the comparison for you and summarises, also gives links to where that info is found. Makes it way easier to find the more obscure information. But it is too slow to use for everything.