I know it’s been getting worse over time, but I could still find what I needed after some digging.

Recently it’s been like 10 minutes of adjusting search terms, still getting completely useless or irrelevant results, and me just giving up afterwards. Other search engines seem just as bad.

    • Skeezix
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      272 months ago

      The problem with DDG is if it doesn’t find results it just ignores your search terms and throws whatever shit it wants at you.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 months ago

        Oh my god, I feel this so much… Also, I think that recently got even worse, as I recently found myself switching between DDG/Google and finding both extremely bad for my query

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Yes!

          It think it got suddenly so much worse recently. Glad to see I’m not alone, something must’ve e changed.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          I know it’s being overly recommended in here, but kagi pretty much gives you exactly what you want. I’ve had very few times it’s been unable to give me my search in the first few results. Others swear by SearXNG

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Yeah, I’ve recently switched to SearXNG instances on some devices, definitely seem to be getting better results

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              apart from ne not having that much money laying around a the moment I’m not a fan of people having to pay for their search engine, as I’m of the opinion that such a fundamental tool to use the web should remain free

        • @starchylemming
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          12 months ago

          does it also straight up ignore special commands like -whatever i could swear you could use that on many sites and it worked as "exclude this "

          • Skeezix
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            12 months ago

            I find that it often laughs at your excluded search terms and includes them anyway

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          unless you switch on verbatim mode

          Which I’m just hearing about now. So clearly they don’t wnst us using it.