I ask because I’ve been doing a lot of research the last few weeks and Google search has really let me down. I’ve been finding better results on DuckDuckGo and Bing. Is this a recent thing with Google or am I out of the loop? Any other search recommendations?

Edit: In no particular order, some recommended alternatives to Google
SearXNG
Whoogle
Ecosia
Brave
Dogpile
DuckDuckGo
Kagi
Swiss Cows
Qwant
Bing

  • explodingboy@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Switched to DuckDuckGo a while ago. Used to be able to get much better results by adding “site:reddit.com” to the search phrase. Esp. when searching for technical information or solutions to problems.

    • addie
      7·
      1 year ago

      Google’s search results have been second-guessed ‘not what you were looking for’, SEO crap and minimum-quality filler for a long time. Putting Reddit in as a search option was about the only thing that kept it usable, and now that everyone’s deleting their comments and leaving, that’s going to go to shit as well.

      For me, when I’m trying trying to recall a song name, and you search for “song lyrics” then half the words in the chorus, Google just won’t help you any more. That put me off it years ago, have been on DDG since.