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Google search is over (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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Via @[email protected]

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Someone recommended Kagi here, and tho it isn't free, it's the only engine I've found so far that can legitimately consistently outperform google

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been using DDG for ages now and tested it against Google a handful of times over that course.

They were nearly identical in search returns. Bing, Yahoo, etc have all caught up to where search just isn’t a thing anymore. Not like how it used to be when Google first dropped and was light years ahead.

And not for nothing but Google has been caught exploiting their search results so not sure if I’d be looking to them as the shining beacon they once were.

[–] ryannathans 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ddg is just a privacy wrapper for bing now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And Yahoo. Maybe more since I haven’t checked since like 2015. But yes, DDG is not technically a search engine they just anonymize the query before sending it.

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