this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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[–] dotslashme 44 points 2 years ago

Starting to become? Their search results have been promoting garbage for years.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Google's search page has got noticeably worse in recent years, for a long list of reasons - here's another indication it's going to get even worse. I find myself using Duckduckgo more and more - it has its problems, but they are not as bad.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t alternative search engines be as susceptible as Google?

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 21 points 2 years ago

Yes, they'll have problems too, but will they be as bad?

The issue in this example is that the results were also SEO optimized for Google. These days Google's results just seem liked paid placements or stuff SEO engineered to appear there.

Duckduckgo is far from perfect, but it seems better than Google at returning organic results.

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

DDG is Bing btw. Just to rub some salt in that age old Bing meme.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You actually can uncook a cooked egg though.

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Starting? Its been horrible for months.

[–] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 2 years ago

trystract.com good

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago

Free from good information