M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable - eviltoast

It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        I’ll be honest, DDG has never blown me away and I’ve been using it for roughly 5 years. It’s not awful or anything, but maybe once every month or two I need to resort to Google because it can’t find something. I’m absolutely willing to sacrifice some quality for privacy in the general case, though.

        • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Yes, it has never been the best in terms of relevance or depth of index. But lately when I do searches for something like “cherry shrimp aquarium water quality requirements” I’ve been overwhelmed by AI-written SEO blogs. Where google still pulls up results from forums, reddit, other relevant actual humans talking.