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submitted 2 years ago by leninmummy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[-] ChrisFhey@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Duckduckgo uses search results from Bing, combined with other search engines and their own bot if Wikipedia is to be believed.

No Google search results are used.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

This explains why their results are so much worse than Google’s.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

5 years ago sure. Not sure I really agree nowadays.
Granted, that has as much to do with Google getting much worse as it does DDG getting better.

[-] brecht@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Palpable 2015 energy in this take right here.

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

For some things. For other things they're better. Google has really jumped the shark in the past two years.

I mostly just use it for when I want corporate style results, like shopping.

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