For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

  • Mnglw@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    DDG keeps changing my search query because its “not returning a lot of results” or because it thinks I typo’d and it is infuriating to me, sometimes it doesnt even inform me that it did, not even giving me a link to click to get to my actual search query

    'also noticed that it got worse around the same time google did

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, jeez. The number of times I give up and Ctrl+F on the page I’ve clicked to, just to find that the phrase I double-quoted just does not exist there and that my time has been wasted

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        10 months ago

        Omg yes

        Search: “staplers”

        “What’s all this saint stuff?? Hmm wtf?”

        ‘Where you trying to search for “St. Rap Lore?” Here are your results.’

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      10 months ago

      It’s very hit or miss for deeper searches. Sometimes at work I just default back to Google because I need quick results that are more relevant. Ecosia has been decent but I don’t have enough hours into it yet. I’m open to ideas, honestly.