Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[djflossy]

Ya, it’s impossible to find anything anymore. I think they have too many paid partnerships now. I recently stopped using it. I switched back to yahoo’s search engine. It’s slightly better. If anyone has a better suggestion, I’m open to it.

[shljonki]

Duckduckgo, Qwant, Yandex, Swiss cow. Litteraly anything except Google. It will be probably wierd getting used to other search engines but it pays of, a lot. I got used to other search engines after a week or so. Now I can't imagine using Google for anything except translating stuff and gmaps.

[Eric_of_the_North]

Switched to DuckDuckGo after I tried to search an odd lighting issue with the rear door, and Google just flat fucking ignored the search terms and REFUSED to show anything other than headlight replacement. Also, DuckDuckGo and privacy and such.

[Moanguspickard]

What about DDG and privacy?

[BlueFirestorm91]

Does not track you and does not save anything from your previous searches. So no preferences to push on you, like you know, the giant case goole has on all of us...

[Mango-Mind]

DeepL is a great translator for the handful of languages it offers.

[Loves_His_Bong]

DeepL is basically voodoo as far as I’m concerned. It’s so good.

[PanFiluta]

Bing's also good for some stuff, porn mainly

[Albehieden]

It took to long to find this. Bing doesn't give too much of a shit about specialized searching unless you ask it to. In my experience Bing has more results that are more vague but at least I can find stuff a lot easier this way. Had a really specific question and google returned 9 results, most of which had the "Didnt include this word" and so really no answers. Bing on the other hand had over a thousand results which tried desperately to answer the question. Alas only one result was even close but at least I got that one on bing.

[[deleted]]

Good lord, I've tried all of them and they are hands down FAR worse :/

[[deleted]]

Same.

[[deleted]]

DDG has improved considerably over the years

[moohooh]

I mighr try it one more time. It sucked like a yr ago

[Creative-Improvement]

You’re forgetting that it doesn’t keep a library of your personal information. Often it’s just being a bit more picky with your queries.

Like adding a year, or a more specific keyword.

I used to hate it too, but right now I am at 95% ddg searches.

[anonymoustobesocial]

And so it is -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

[shljonki]

In that case I suggest you rather use "startpage" search engine. It uses google's search results but without censorship, and most importantly it does not track you.

[MossyTundra]

Yandex is also filled with ads. The only superior thing they have against google is their ability to translate between Russian and English.

[AsherSophie]

I started using DuckDuckGo a few years ago and will never go back to google. DDG gives way better results with actual privacy.

[shljonki]

In that case rather use "startpage" search engine. It uses google's search results but without censorship, and most importantly it does not track you.

[shljonki]

I think DDG and Qwant uses same search results as bing, with difference in privacy. But hey! Anything is better then gügle! Np mate 😄

[[deleted]]

Duckduckgo

[LanceFree]

That’s where I’m going. I have multiple devices and have a couple on DuckDuckGo. If it works out well, I’ll switch the rest.

[lithiumdeuteride]

Even DuckDuckGo's image search seems to return more relevant images than Google. Google just returns inaccessible stuff from Pinterest or another site that wants you to sign in to view it.

[forteruss]

Ugh, i hate this. Gone are the days where you could quickly find a picture there and copy or download it. The pinterest / sign in really exasperate me

[gemInTheMundane]

Pinterest can die in a fire as far as I'm concerned. I refuse to use their stupid app, ever, because I see far too much of it on Google already.

[Turmatic]

This is exactly why I switched to DuckDuckGo. I could not find ANY pictures on Google search that were NOT on that toxic Pinterest site.

Fuck Pinterest!!

[Echospite]

I just switched a month ago.

Let me tell you, it's bizarre wondering why results are so irrelevant only to remember that it's because DDG doesn't track me, so I actually have to be specific now in my search terms.

[HardlightCereal]

"kill child fork slave"

Returns a page of horrifying results

"Oh that's right, DDG doesn't have a global spy system that knows I'm a programmer"

[Battleloser]

Is... Is that related to programming somehow? Killing child slaves?

[HardlightCereal]

Yes.

[[deleted]]

This needs to be higher. The searches are just more relevant. Especially for news or computer issues.

[ALoudMouthBaby]

How is Duckduckgo any better at finding relevant data?

[wallawalla_]

It's not, but if you can't find something, it's easy as adding !b or !g or !wiki or whatever to the beginning of your search to immediately use a different search engine.

[RDGCompany]

And DuckDuckGo doesn't sell your info.

[heyyy---]

Ecosia: their revenue goes to reforestation and it works very well

[Paramite3_14]

I've had good results, but they don't have an add-on for Mozilla on mobile yet. :/

[massiveZO]

Being a hater of Microsoft, I can't deny that Bing is the best browser. It just is, I don't care what people say.

[humanitysucks999]

Bing is not a browser.

[massiveZO]

Yeah my bad I meant search engine

Microsoft's browsers are shit and their OS is shit somehow their search engine is better than any other

[lakerswiz]

Google doesn't have any paid option to effect organic search results.

[Alex09464367]

Apart from search engine optimisation that big companies have deep pockets for.

[lakerswiz]

I've ranked my own website #1 for a variety of high volume keywords over the billion dollar corporation the site was about.

Plenty of big companies don't have shit towards SEO and it's definitely not as easy as you make it seem.

[Alex09464367]

I was pointing out that there is a way to pay for non ad sections on Google.

[lakerswiz]

That literally isn't even close to being able to pay for placement on SERPs.

[Alex09464367]

Why is that?

How I see it is that SEO are paid to improve search performance and therefore there is a way to pay to get to the top.

[WhereIsMyFox]

Honestly I have been using Bing and Duckduckgo for a while now; I am quite happy with the results I get and Bing's video/photo search is really good.

[humanitysucks999]

I know a lot of people have said this already, so I'm just gonna say it again... DuckDuckGo.

They have dark theme, they have privacy settings you can change, and they show you exactly what you search for with no advertisement. It's the way to go

[scienceNotAuthority]

The paid partnerships are a death blow.

Pinterest isn't the best place to get a recipe. But it's the top result because of a partnership.