I know people that will complain about the crappy results but then not use a different search engine. Like it’s too much cognitive load to go to duckduckgo or qwant or whatever
To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was “the good googler” amongst my peers at the time. I haven’t tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.
A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.
That’s sadly a big part of it. Other is that search engines in general are worse today as everything apparently needs to be AI. Google spesifically has gotten worse over the years, but it’s not alone. And that indirectly affects other engines, like duckduck, which at least partly uses other engines at the background.
But with DDG bangs are pretty neat. If you don’t find what you’re looking for via DDG search just add ‘!g’ to the query and you’ll get same search from Google. Or pick from “a few” other engines with their own bangs.
Even today’s Google (if you use an adblocker) is still much better results than Duckduckgo from my experience. I use ddg first, but I often have to resort to Google if the results are shit.
I know people that will complain about the crappy results but then not use a different search engine. Like it’s too much cognitive load to go to duckduckgo or qwant or whatever
To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was “the good googler” amongst my peers at the time. I haven’t tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.
I downloaded the Wikipedia app - I usually end up there anyway, just now I just cut to the chase.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks DDG search is dogshit
I’ve been using StartPage, and the results are generally much better (though I think they are technically taken from Google, so…)
That’s sadly a big part of it. Other is that search engines in general are worse today as everything apparently needs to be AI. Google spesifically has gotten worse over the years, but it’s not alone. And that indirectly affects other engines, like duckduck, which at least partly uses other engines at the background.
But with DDG bangs are pretty neat. If you don’t find what you’re looking for via DDG search just add ‘!g’ to the query and you’ll get same search from Google. Or pick from “a few” other engines with their own bangs.
Even today’s Google (if you use an adblocker) is still much better results than Duckduckgo from my experience. I use ddg first, but I often have to resort to Google if the results are shit.
Check out Start Page.
Uses Google results, but it doesn’t track or profile you