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Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It's been some years.

I just can't believe how poor it's results are, and how it's trying to suggest things it think I might also want (and failing miserably).

I just assumed ddg would be the lesser, but I use it for privacy. Turns out I'm wrong.

How long has Google been this bad?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Brave is one of the few somewhat common browser/search companies that is worse than Google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Prefer Firefox browser. But what is bad about their search it seems to be the most accurate to what I want. I always found ddg to give me stuff outside of exactly what I want. Google just started going out of right field. Then the summary ai thing recently added to brave search has been decent. I like the sources