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butsbutts, in Google “search”

duckduckgo has been fine for me

M137,

My main problem with DDG is that it doesn’t show the dates of results. A lot of the time, I need to know that to get the information I need. I used it for a couple of years, but I was constantly forced to go back to Google or Bing to get the information I needed.

I found Kagi earlier this year and tried it out, and it’s as close to perfect as you can get, IMO. I really can’t recommend it enough. It’s like being back to “the before times” when Google was king, with the addition of many other features. It’s a paid service, and I’m more than happy to do so for something like this. No tracking, a ton of features, very well designed, and results that never fail. I’ve shared my account with family and friends, and everyone has mentioned how good it is after trying it.

Sorry if it feels like I’m a shill for it, I’m just super happy with it and really feel like everyone deserves to know about it.

unreasonabro, in Google “search”

Of course it has, and this effect was completely foreseeable, and indeed, was foreseen, from the very moment they decided to whore themselves out with that IPO. They took their role as custodian of the baby internet and became a pimp.

Stop calling it anything else. As a musician, I promise you, trying to promote yourself online feels like prostitution. If you’ve ever tried, then you know too. The only difference is if I were a prostitute I might actually make some money back.

GrammatonCleric, in Proof of twerk
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

apt 😂

spaduf,

install

lemmy_nightmare,
@lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works avatar

synaptic

Got_Bent, in Google “search”

I’m in a worse situation. I still go to Yahoo every day out of habit going back to the nineties. I instantly regret it every time I do it.

RememberTheApollo_,

You know what? I tried it, and even though it’s dated, it gave me better results that google.

Hard to believe it’s still around. But then so is AOL.com.

hehe, just for fun I tried prodigy.com (wasn’t there) but holy shit compuserve.com was!

Tikiporch, (edited ) in Pizza delivery

Driving a car is why both are dangerous.

Edit: look up the most dangerous jobs BLS stats, and most common cause of death for almost all jobs is transportation related.

gnate,

Other people driving is the dangerous part, hence garbage collection and postal delivery being near the top of the list.

TheDeepState, in Golden

Why is it on his penis?

Coreidan,

Why wouldn’t it be?

Alexstarfire,

That IS his penis.

TheDeepState,

That makes more sense.

TrickDacy, in Google “search”
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

No matter how many times people shit on Google, it’s still the best search engine, as much as I wish it wasn’t so. But it is

Tlaloc_Temporal,
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca avatar

Not really. Especially after the first couple results, it’s clueless.

Gabu,

What are you on about, Google is complete shit.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Ok. I default to ddg but have to end up using Google half the time. It’s not for lack of trying.

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

That’s cuz DDG is terrible. Kagi is amazing in comparison to both.

vardogor,
@vardogor@mander.xyz avatar

kagi gives me much better results. i mean, it better, since it costs money.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I would pay for it, but when I looked at pricing I was pretty disappointed

vardogor,
@vardogor@mander.xyz avatar

they changed the $25 dollar tier to $10 recently. made it a lot more realistic for me, but i still wish it was lower

eclectic_electron,

People aren’t comparing it to alternatives, they’re comparing it to Google 5-10 years ago.

Google used to be astoundingly good at figuring out what it was you wanted, and finding out for you. Now there’s a lot more SEO garbage and meaningless fluff clogging every results page, and if your search could even remotely be related to buying something, it’s only products and ads.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

I would agree it’s a little worse than it used to be, but the post implies it’s useless which is just false

petrol_sniff_king, (edited )

Dude, I switched from Google for the first time in my life a couple months ago because I couldn’t take it anymore.

Ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads
Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles

The fact that google has a built-in graphing calculator just isn’t worth it.

I won’t forget this, actually: I was looking up what to do next in a game I was playing—very deliberately, I care a lot about spoilers—and the “people also ask” section implied, for no reason, this had nothing to do with what I wanted to know, that a character who died really early on apparently has things to say in chapter 9.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Ok. You can’t really avoid spoilers on the Internet though. That’s kind of common knowledge

petrol_sniff_king,

I do. I’m a professional.

That stupid answers thing only got me once, maybe twice, because I don’t let it anymore.

This kind of thing is a lot easier to control, though, when your results are what you wanted and not what you didn’t.

Aggravationstation, (edited ) in Golden

“Well, I’m off to the Apple store to whack it to VS Code.”

FlyingSquid, in Pizza delivery
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Pizza delivery people have to get out of their car in any weather. Cops only have to get out of their car if they feel like it. Also, cops don’t have to buy their own gas.

bdonvr, in Google “search”

I started self hosting a SearxNG instance. It’s pretty cool, it combines several engines while not spying on you.

Ghyste, in Jordanian Petersonian

Not a meme. Why is it here?

can,

Few people know or care anymore

Omega_Haxors, (edited )

Translation: “Nien, this offends me, POLITICS IS VERBOTEN!!

EDIT: way to go dickhead mods, capitulate to sh.itholefullof.nazis users. And you wonder why this c/ is such a cracker bar.

mindbleach,

Incorrect.

Omega_Haxors,

Fixed.

mindbleach,

Still wrong.

fossphi, in every time

Story of my life. With short hair, I think longer would look better. Once I grow it out a bit and it looks ugly again, I give up and have it cut. Only to immediately regret it. When will the cycle end‽

profoundninja, in Wincest.

Keeping the bloodline pure.

TootSweet, in Who the f**k is siri?!

I hear Pi-hole fixes this.

mindbleach, in Google “search”

‘We didn’t find many results matching the terms you wrote.’

THAT’S WHY I FUCKING WROTE THEM.

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