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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know how you view google as “effective”, but ddg is very good

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  • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DDG is shit.

    Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?

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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Effective search results.

        Two recent examples:

        • searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
        • searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.

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  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg

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• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. I don’t think I’ve used Google in probably a year and a half.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing

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• blakeus12@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  startpage, searxng, duck duck go

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are a bunch of free search engines available.

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• JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?

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