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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/

[–] rdri 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for your visit
Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country.

And no way to set my country.

[–] affiliate 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you could set your country with a vpn 😎

[–] rdri 12 points 1 year ago

That's less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.

[–] iturnedintoanewt 5 points 1 year ago

They also don't allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(

[–] Got_Bent 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - "best tires"

My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider.

Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.

[–] slumberlust 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?

[–] c0mbatbag3l 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the biggest problem, can't even get straight data and ads separately. Now the articles are the ads, and SEO/adspace has made search results even less useful.

[–] asteriskeverything 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comments are the ads now too.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah especially with LLM models, now you can automate your shills.

[–] isles 1 points 1 year ago

(Not important, but the M in LLM is "Model")

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately.

https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342

I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.

[–] maness300 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder why Firefox isn't listed in their mobile web browsers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They actually explained that

Android browsers must use the Chromium engine.

Unfortunately, Mozilla GeckoView is still less secure than Chromium on Android.

probably referring to the lack of pre-process site isolation on firefox.

[–] Toldry 3 points 1 year ago

"DDG" refers to DuckDuckGo

just writing this for others who might've been confused like i was before looking it up