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Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad?

So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It’s been some years.

I just can’t believe how poor it’s results are, and how it’s trying to suggest things it think I might also want (and failing miserably).

I just assumed ddg would be the lesser, but I use it for privacy. Turns out I’m wrong.

How long has Google been this bad?

wargreymon2023 ,

since it becomes a monopoly

BlastboomStrice ,
@BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz avatar

Hahaha, I ~just came after a search using g**gle due to ddgo being down, I noticed the “web” search is no longer the default (as it was discussed some days ago here).

Google seems to have a huge grip on people and they don’t seem to notice (or act against) the terrible services of google search…

gila ,

They didn’t make that the default. What was discussed was a way to make it default (add www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 as a custom search engine)

And the comments on those posts said we should actually use DDG instead lol

Hugh_Jeggs ,

It’s only been about a year really, but the Enshittification was logarithmic and got twice as bad every day

shish_mish ,
@shish_mish@lemmy.world avatar

I use Swiss Cow and it works fine swisscows.com

Phen ,

I don’t see much AI stuff on Google yet but most searches there now give me only video results for some reason, with no way to opt out of them and get text results. It DDG fails me I just give up now.

haui_lemmy ,

I‘m using searx.be most of the time. Safari wont allow it so I got confronted with ddg being down today. Still only use google if something is unfindable (mostly niche computer stuff).

Pistcow ,

Feels like about 6 months or so? If I do an image search it only seems to pull items linking to a retail site. Everything is about sales and I can’t find information.

dvdnet62 ,
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Use this workaround cnet.com/…/get-google-search-results-without-ai-a…

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