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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
submitted 9 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

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[–] Stuttgart273@lemmy.one 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The dangers of a monopoly. No matter how bad Google gets people will still use it because, in many people's minds, there is no other search engine.

[–] quatschkopf34@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What are those? DDG, Bing, Ecosia etc. are all not really better than Google. I haven‘t tried Kagi yet, mostly because it costs money.

[–] kosmoz@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can actually try kagi for free. 100 searches/month should be enough for you to decide if it's worth the money to you.

(Not affiliated; just a happy user)

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kagi went to bed with Brave, and when people protested they ignored it

[–] Mixel@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Is kagi a metasearch engine? Or does it have its own crawler and so on?

[–] Mixel@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I agree it does suck in general One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i was struggling with DDG too, but in another post i saw someone recommend searx and it is actually really good.

[–] Mixel@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Fyi searx is deprecated or at least not maintained and discontinued Switch to searxNG which is an active fork and it is really good :D

[–] w00@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

You can use Kagi for free if you make an account and only use it when the others fail. Love Kagi, but won't pay for it.