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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I use DuckDuckGo, you can configure it as your default search engine in Firefox.

[–] Z3k3 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I find myself hitting the same issues with ddg as with Google. The 1st page trys to sell me the thing I want info on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You can turn sponsor off in setting or use start.duckduckgo.com

I find their ad is much more clearly marked than google.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I use DDG when coding and generally find it to be a bit nicer, but from the article it sounds like they're prone to the same issues. Anecdotally, I have noticed non-code queries do seem to be similarly crap

ETA: You can set it as default in Chrome too, under Settings -> Search Engine

[–] victorz 4 points 11 months ago

I've turned to devdocs.io for my API documentation needs, which saves me the step of searching at all.