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Word. It's ridiculous how hard it is to get good hits these days. And while GPT makes shit up sometimes it's at least related to what I'm actually asking about. Google desperately wants to show the SEO optimized pages about something tangentially related instead of the page which actually has relevant information.

Getting a solid old forum hit for an obscure DNS issue takes a lot more work these days.

It's Googles fault, but it's not the algorithm getting worse, everyone is just too good at gaming it which fucks it up for everyone (the humanity special).

Lemmy really likes Tweets lol

We need “Google find” instead of “Google search”.

I use Google for maps and I'm still using their email for one account but I hate it. Duckduckgo's maps are way less useful. I know they're tracking my every move. I want to normalize leaving my cell phone at home at this point.

For some stuff I had more luck using ChatGPT and crosscheck using DuckDuckGo.

'We didn't find many results matching the terms you wrote.'

THAT'S WHY I FUCKING WROTE THEM.

So what is the best search engine for programming?

I still use it every day (logged out in private/incognito, of course) and returns far more valid results than any other search engine I've used.

Sorry, but they're a necessary evil IMO. Google is shit, but the search engine is great.

So, what, Bing then?