Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

  • Dojan
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    Google is mostly adverts. Wouldn’t take much to be better than that.

    • Suite404
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      315 days ago

      I finally left Google a month or so ago and its amazing how little I miss it.

      • Dojan
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        115 days ago

        Yeah. I search for things all the time. Thousands of searches each month. I thought I’d miss it a lot, but I’ve not used Google for two years or so and it’s not really a problem.

    • @Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      76% of their Q2 2024 revenue came from adverts. I’d rather pay with capitalist-consumerist shit on my screen than pay with money, but as everyone knows it’s far too invasive rn. Ergo, I use uBlock, sponsorblock and I don’t care about cookies.