Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
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I use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
19 1 ReplyThanks for your visit
Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country.And no way to set my country.
19 0 Replyyou could set your country with a vpn 😎
14 0 ReplyThat's less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
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They also don't allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
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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.
14 0 ReplyAren't all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
8 0 ReplyThat'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.
9 0 ReplyComments are the ads now too.
7 0 ReplyYeah especially with LLM models, now you can automate your shills.
5 0 Reply(Not important, but the M in LLM is "Model")
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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.
6 0 ReplyI wonder why Firefox isn't listed in their mobile web browsers.
1 1 ReplyThey 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.
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"DDG" refers to DuckDuckGo
just writing this for others who might've been confused like i was before looking it up
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