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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Cuntessera@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

I keep reading that Google’s search results are supposedly much better than DDG’s when my experience is the exact opposite. I don’t even live in an English speaking country and the results I get are a vast improvement over Google’s. It has been this way for me since at least last year, but in my experience DDG had caught up to Google in 2022 already. It could also be that Google has just deteriorated a lot in the last two years (which it definitely has, judging by all the bad publicity they’ve been getting for it), so I’d urge you to give DDG/Brave Search/Bing/Kagi/SearxNG another chance.

I’d also recommend setting an alternative of your choice as the default everywhere and to use it exclusively for like a week before making up your mind about that specific product!