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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel the same except Google is worse due to higher number of ads in results and most SEO prioritizes Google over Bing meaning more Google results are AI spam articles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I feel the same except Google is worse due to higher number of ads in results

I generally don't see ads due to uBlock Origin. Or am I just not noticing them? Lol.

and most SEO prioritizes Google over Bing meaning more Google results are AI spam articles.

I will give you that. But I find that's the case with DDG too which is why I'm having to rely more and more on search operators like site:. I agree that it's really annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I generally don't see ads due to uBlock Origin. Or am I just not noticing them? Lol.

I'm talking about the results as ads(paid for result ranking). Not as much a thing in DDG but google, they're awful and you get maybe 2 results a page that aren't paid promotion.

Freya Holmer did a good video on AI/SEO i think touches a little on this...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Oh that.

Yeaaaah that gets kind of annoying I imagine...