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[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

I tried duckduckgo for a while and kept coming back to Google for "real" searches at work. It's not as good for searching in my experience. Yet.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

Duckduckgo has become a little better than it used to be... but google has also become a whole lot worse.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I haven't quite found a replacement that is better than google, but the way the trajectories are, it's only a matter of time.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

If you're looking for research papers, duckduckgo (and yandex) is your friend - google is perfectly unusable for that these days.

[-] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

an

This is the truth. I switched back when I got a new pc at work, and google was way worse.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

The vast majority of times I go back to Google to do a search I find it also returns useless results. I'm not convinced it's any better than duckduckgo. I think it used to be, but not anymore.

[-] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I had the same experience. I used switch between DDG and Google when DDG gave results I didn't want. During the pandemic, I remember DDG giving lots of false positives and odd, non-standard web page hits. Like, if I was searching for current COVID advice, it would give me hits from the health department in Bumfuck, Nebraska instead of, say, CDC (and I don't live in Bumfuck, Nebraska). It has really improved since then and now I can use DDG pretty much exclusively. Not having to scroll past a page of Google ads to find my search results is quite glorious.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

The 6 residents of bumfuck Nebraska would like a word with you after their Trump circlejerk.

[-] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

And I would be honored to speak with them!

[-] agileharddisk@lemmy.today 3 points 11 months ago

I think it depends on wether google is eating the cookies or not

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

What's your field?

I'm in a DevOps/Cloud Engineer role and DDG works better for me than Google. No ads and somehow fewer of the gpt generated fake help articles.

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Same vein, devops/data engineering. Maybe I'll give it another shot, I'd like to get off Google.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Big same. I’ll even bang out to Startpage to try to avoid directly using Google (!sp vs. !g), but that’s not as good either.

I bow to my search overlord Google. Until I try Grasp, Kagi, and SearXNG, and hopefully one of those will satisfy (in particular SearXNG).

Until then DDG remains my default, and I’ll !g half the time :(

[-] jamyang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Did you use Kagi? How was it?

[-] czech@low.faux.moe 3 points 11 months ago

Been using Kagi for a few months. Now that the unlimited tier is $10 it's a no brainer, for me.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

One of the three on my to-try list, still.

[-] m_randall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I tried it a few months ago and bought it before the trial was over. Took some time to build trust but it’s still on par with google if not better.

(My account probably looks like a shill for them but I swear I’m just a happy user)

[-] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I also really like Kagi, and their bundle for Ultimate users of the various text AI tools is also very helpful for work.

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