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You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds::Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people’s lived experience—says different.
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…Fuck using quotes or a negative search still won’t get you what you want. I’ve had it still pull up results with the negative words in it.
It’s the same on YouTube. One time I added a negative term and I ONLY got that term in the results. I don’t understand how you can break such an important part of search.
I’ve used terms like “ItemA”+“ItemB”
And still get results which have the disclaimer “Missing: ItemB | Show results with: ItemB”
I ALREADY TOLD YOU TO
Yeah, so they changed it so it defaults to the “new” way where quotes and -UnwantedTerm don’t function the way they used to, but when you fill out the search box, hit “Google Search”, and it fails to perform the way you want it to, once you’re on the results page, go to “Tools” click on “All Results” and change it to “Verbatim”.
Or I’m just gonna stop using Google
So far, I’ve moved to Kagi.
I like kagi, too. The small subscription fee is worth it to me because I get decent search results and they don’t track you or bubble you…
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Well fuck. I want nothing to do with kagi now.
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It’s frustrating. But not surprising. Indexing the internet ain’t cheap.
I’m so technologically illiterate I couldn’t figure out how to access the sears.space website. All I can find is versions and instances and a GitHub page
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That website was so jam packed with crap popping up that it wasn’t worth reading
If you use Firefox, the reader view works great when you want to look at just the article and nothing else.
Or Safari.
I seriously can’t recommend Kagi enough! Make an account and do a hundred searches (FREE) that aren’t monetized and/or used to advertise to you or steal your data. It’s incredible what a difference it makes.
I was reluctant to jump on the Kagi bandwagon, but I’m now a week in and genuinely enjoying it.
Before, I’d have to search things across Google/Bing/AskJeeves a few times to finally arrive at an answer - I’ve yet to leave Kagi this last week.
The different AI engines you can also use and the customization for styling are pretty darn good, too. I’m now using it as my dedicated search on all my android phones, my laptop, and my desktop. Time will tell if things hold up, but so far so good.
Only con so far is that it’s sometimes slow to provide results. It isn’t devastating, but it’s like a 5 second delay which “feels” slow, but it’s whatever.
+1
Also, I wish we’d have a kagi community for Lemmy
Because I’m too lazy to do my own research; does someone have actual good experience with something else?
I’m using Brave search and it’s good for most things if I add an extra keyword, but not good for local results.
Thanks in advance for all the Brave downvotes.
I’m giving searx a try. There’s a list of public instances here: https://searx.space/
Https://qwant.com , a french privacy first search engine that has alright search results but great privacy control
I use Duck Duck Go. It seems okay to me, but I admit that I haven’t tried anything else.
I’m disappointed with the number of brave downvotes you are receiving. Recommend you stop supporting Brave. Kagi has been really great, I’ve never looked back. I value ux, search, and privacy enough to feel it’s worth the price.
I think it’s related to paid search and SEO tactics. All my browser have adblocks for years and I think it helps. By my own experience I don’t think it’s worse, and to be honest I still think it’s unmatched. I’ve been using duckduckgo sometimes and it’s alright and all but it’s definitely not better.
I don’t need a study to know that.
I switched to DuckDuckGo years ago, never looked back
By coincidence, yesterday I had to use my Virtual windows machine to test some windows software with a a scanner (my own machine is Linux). So i go to the browser in there, search for the brand and model for the driver and lo and behold, all the results were sponsored or incorrect. Correct the browser configuration to DuckDuckGo, retry, and there is the first result!
Now I know, DuckDuckGo is now apparently just Microsoft Bing, and I hate Microsoft, but at least this works. I know that DuckDuckGo is also getting worse and I’m about to look into self hosted open source alternatives, see what that gets me…
