• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Like every day? Yeah it’s worse now but Google is still useful for a lot of things.

    That being said, I do have AdBlock so it’s a different internet for me.

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      8 days ago

      Have you ever tried DuckDuckGo or Qwant? They have better results in my opinion, as long as you don’t care about the business snippets.

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        8 days ago

        DuckDuckGo is so much better than Google. Barely any ads, and results that are actually useful 9 times out of 10.

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          8 days ago

          It has been my experience that, yes, the user experience of DuckDuckGo is far superior to that of Google, but, DuckDuckGo doesn’t always provide the precise results. I’m looking for. I can still get the information, but it takes a little bit more work.

          Don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely not shilling for Google. Their search engine has definitely gone to shit in the last 5 to 8 years. But DuckDuckGo simply doesn’t have the incredible precision that Google can if it’s properly used.

          I use both

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          8 days ago

          I’ve been using it for what seems like forever, but getting fewer and fewer relevant results over time for some reason. Switching to &udm=14 has been helpful, but I’m still uncertain about it: https://udm14.com/