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?

  • magic_lobster_party
    4•6 months ago

    Google. I usually find what I want with it, although it has gotten worse over time.

    I tried DDG a few years ago and only found it worse. Like, there was a clear performance impact with me using DDG vs me using Google.

    • Carighan Maconar
      1•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.

      • @[email protected]
        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.