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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)
submitted 10 months ago by jezebelley@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It really is terrible. I was a DDG early adopter and then Kagi. It’s been a while since Google has been my daily driver, but I do sometimes use it and the results are just bad. There’s so much spam and the results page is a mess. To my eyes, Google is worse than either Kagi or DDG in just about every way except speed. The only other thing I can really think of where Google is much better is in local search. They are damn good at that.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. Here in the Netherlands, DuckDuckGo results are poor for anything local. I fall back to Google relatively frequently, although for day to day stuff it's quite okay. I do often head straight to Wikipedia....