Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says - eviltoast

I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’ve been trying DuckDuckGo recently and already started seeing some better results. I’m not ready to change my default search engine yet, but if it keeps up I could see that happening sooner than later.

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      11 months ago

      I recommend reading the actual paper this article is about. DDG is actually by far the worst by their measures. Google is 9% spam compared to 31% for DDG and 23% for Bing. That’s a huge difference.

      I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven’t before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.

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        11 months ago

        My family was looking for a specific manual and couldn’t find it on Google, the only search engine they know about. It was one of the first results on DDG.

        I’m using DDG for a while now and I’m happy with it overall.

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      11 months ago

      Been using DDG as my default for about 4 years now. It’s actually just gotten better as Google has gotten worse. I used to use the bangs a lot to check Google from DDG, but do that less and less.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      Same on the default search changing, I’m very much used to Google Search and it’s gonna take me a while before I switch. Though I’ve already managed to switch from Gmail and it’s kinda refreshing, so this will be just another step.