• ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I tried duckduckgo for a while and kept coming back to Google for “real” searches at work. It’s not as good for searching in my experience. Yet.

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      11 months ago

      Duckduckgo has become a little better than it used to be… but google has also become a whole lot worse.

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        11 months ago

        an

        This is the truth. I switched back when I got a new pc at work, and google was way worse.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I haven’t quite found a replacement that is better than google, but the way the trajectories are, it’s only a matter of time.

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          11 months ago

          If you’re looking for research papers, duckduckgo (and yandex) is your friend - google is perfectly unusable for that these days.

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      11 months ago

      The vast majority of times I go back to Google to do a search I find it also returns useless results. I’m not convinced it’s any better than duckduckgo. I think it used to be, but not anymore.

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        11 months ago

        I had the same experience. I used switch between DDG and Google when DDG gave results I didn’t want. During the pandemic, I remember DDG giving lots of false positives and odd, non-standard web page hits. Like, if I was searching for current COVID advice, it would give me hits from the health department in Bumfuck, Nebraska instead of, say, CDC (and I don’t live in Bumfuck, Nebraska). It has really improved since then and now I can use DDG pretty much exclusively. Not having to scroll past a page of Google ads to find my search results is quite glorious.

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      11 months ago

      What’s your field?

      I’m in a DevOps/Cloud Engineer role and DDG works better for me than Google. No ads and somehow fewer of the gpt generated fake help articles.

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      11 months ago

      Big same. I’ll even bang out to Startpage to try to avoid directly using Google (!sp vs. !g), but that’s not as good either.

      I bow to my search overlord Google. Until I try Grasp, Kagi, and SearXNG, and hopefully one of those will satisfy (in particular SearXNG).

      Until then DDG remains my default, and I’ll !g half the time :(

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          11 months ago

          Been using Kagi for a few months. Now that the unlimited tier is $10 it’s a no brainer, for me.

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            11 months ago

            I tried it a few months ago and bought it before the trial was over. Took some time to build trust but it’s still on par with google if not better.

            (My account probably looks like a shill for them but I swear I’m just a happy user)

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              11 months ago

              I also really like Kagi, and their bundle for Ultimate users of the various text AI tools is also very helpful for work.