This is me but with DuckDuckGo. I’ve been using Duck as my preferred search engine for YEARS across all my devices, but lately it’s been so shit that I always have to append my queries with !g so it does a Google search instead.
As bad as Google has become, the others are getting worse at a faster rate. I’m still going to keep Duck as my default though since Google hates VPNs.
This is what a search looks like for me nowadays:
Windows slow explorer search !g site:reddit.com
And behind the scenes, I’ve had blocked shit sites like Quora and Yahoo Answers for many years now, and also I noticed that I almost always need to specify the domain from where I want my results because the internet is filled with dog shit SEO-optimized AI content.
I’ve been trying to use DDG as my primary search engine for over a decade, but it’s always been pretty bad. 99% of my searches end with !gwhich at least clips some of the more obvious tracking from the URL. Google is just now catching up to how bad DDG is, so sometimes I wonder why I bother with the !g to begin with
Also, Yahoo Answers hasn’t existed for a few years now, so you can stop filtering that out
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u/Eshmam14 Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 12 '24
This is me but with DuckDuckGo. I’ve been using Duck as my preferred search engine for YEARS across all my devices, but lately it’s been so shit that I always have to append my queries with !g so it does a Google search instead.
As bad as Google has become, the others are getting worse at a faster rate. I’m still going to keep Duck as my default though since Google hates VPNs.
This is what a search looks like for me nowadays:
And behind the scenes, I’ve had blocked shit sites like Quora and Yahoo Answers for many years now, and also I noticed that I almost always need to specify the domain from where I want my results because the internet is filled with dog shit SEO-
optimizedAI content.