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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

And no way to set my country.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you could set your country with a vpn 😎

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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 :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Comments are the ads now too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"DDG" refers to DuckDuckGo

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