Is it just be or has DDG been absolutely unusable abysmal dogshit lately?I find myself instinctually prepending !g to pretty much everything.
Its just bing in disguise anon
>>106469222Ok so then why did Bing turn to dogshit?
we need a search engine of curated blogs and news outletsreally shouldn't be that hard
>>106469325Just use AI, retard. Search engines are for olds.
>>106469359I'd rather take drugs if I want hallucinations.
>>106469467>I'd rather take drugs if I want hallucinations.based
>>106469359>Just use AI, retard. Search engines are for olds.Have fun filling up your brain with tons of erroneous info.
>>106469219>latelyAlways has been. Not once has this piece of shit ever worked right. I could search dogs and it would give me the wikipedia page for cats. Fuck CuckCuckGo.
>>106469219Has it ever been good?
>>106469219have you been to bing.com recently? it might explain a few things.
>>106469219since 2020 everything with a smiley logo is shit
>Is it just me-No. Bing (what DDG uses iirc) definitely changed some shit. I noticed they stopped indexing a lot of stuff related to 4chan, too. No idea why since Google still shows lots about it.
>LatelyBeen garbage since covid.That was when the move was made.
>>106469219just use qwant
>>106469219for me, it's kagi
>>106469219Yes, ddg is "just Bing" it is jewed and trash. >!gkek
>>106469349https://marginalia-search.com/
>>106469219it had trash results for as long as I remember. But I only needed first results so it didn't matter that results after 5 are already retarded.
>>106469219>Why not just stick with Google?Search engines are a biased window into the web. We want to filter out SEO and discover actual interesting webpages.>SHIT tier alternativesduckduckgo.com>Deep tier (best first)search.marginalia.nustract.commojeek.comyep.comrightdao.comboardreader.cominfotiger.comultra.gondola.pics (near fulltext 4chan archive)>"Specialized" tieralexandria.orgwiby.mesearchmysite.netfeedle.worldgrep.appsearchcode.comsearch.pullpush.io (reddit fulltext)>Premiumkagi.comleta.mullvad.net>Proxies to Google or DDG, if you musthttps://4get%2Ecasearx.spacesr.ht/~benbusby/whoogle-search/#public-instanceshttps://github.com/Extravi/araa-search>Privacy and security comparison of some search enginessearchengine.party
>>106469359Unironically this. Perplexity.AI beats every search engine out there, including Google.
>>106469219All search engines have. It was a coordinated effort after 2020. Part of it is trying to herd people to use and trust AI. Part of it is 90% of search services are just repackaged Google or Microsoft crawlers. >>106469222Bingo. Data is the new oil and microsoft wants your search data.>>106469359I love getting made up bullshit that pretends to be an authoritative source! Maybe next we should worship this underperforming tech as a false god and gladly accept when it tells us "no no, I can't give you that answer cause it is bad and wrong for you to have that info tee hee">>106471946>Googlegood only for local business search results and is still somewhat questionable when it comes to reviews and rankings.>MojeekDamn near useless but I respect it for using their own crawlerMy search of choice is Brave. Not gonna pretend it hasn't got nerfed with other engines as it will only give under 20 pages of results but the results are not pozzed. If I want romsites it will give me romsites, not a lecture on why I need to purchase $80 remakes on current software. If I want a specific porn vid, it will give me porn sites and not a notice on how many DMCA results were removed. If I want a site that streams a specific movie, it will link me paid and unpaid streaming sites and leave it to me if I wanna give my computer aids to watch a movie.it ain't perfect, but its the best all around option and when it isn't I bounce to other search engines
>>106469219I ditched DDG like a year or two ago and went to search.brave.comPros:Brave has bangs tooBrave's AI search isn't completely horrible, but needs workPolitical search results are less censoredBased Brendan Eich makes trannies seetheCons:Search results are kinda shit on some topicsThe AI would sometimes lock up the browser for seconds (hasn't happened in a few weeks so maybe they fixed it.)I can tell my tranny girlfriends I use it
>>106472666*can't tell
