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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by MTK@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

is it? that kind of makes sense, because I still use Bing occasionally while Google is completely out of rotation, although I don't find Bing as good as duckduckgo.

edit: it is not! looks like the DuckDuckGo search engine is an aggregate of hundreds of search engines, including their own duck duck bot, excluding Google but including some Bing results.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their FAQ hems and haws about that, but (in the past) I've done side-by-side tests and found identical results. Maybe something's changed, maybe it hasn't.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it must have done by now, then, I get different results from identical prompts in DuckDuckGo and Bing although both are usually relevant.

"DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google."

are you having trouble finding something specifically or you just don't like the quality of the search results you're finding in general?

definitely if you're still on Google, stop using it.

It's completely useless at this point.