DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? - eviltoast

Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My thought always was that DDG was good to set as my default, and if I’m not happy with the results then it’s not a big deal to use Google once in awhile.

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        13 hours ago

        How does that work exactly? It absorbs the tracking hit for you? So you’re just passed through the search results?

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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        Yo, startpage looks sick. I’ll have to poke around and see if I can find more info on that it looks super useful. My quick test just now was “cloture 2025” which returned 4 news articles followed by basically nothing but .gov links, whereas Google returns way more “news”