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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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[โ€“] [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

[โ€“] 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.