• Pistcow
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    322 months ago

    For reals. I never bookmarked anything as I’d just regoogle what I was looking for but as of six months ago I can’t find shit. It’s like it never existed and all I get is spam websites that’s are skinned to looks genuine. I’m honestly going back to Askjeeves.com

        • lad
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          72 months ago

          Until you stumble upon “we don’t have that page archived”, then the pain is real

    • @OpenStars
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      92 months ago

      Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)

      • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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        112 months ago

        It’s Bing without tracking. And the things like quotation marks still work. However, baseline search using it has still gone to shit.

        • @OpenStars
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          12 months ago

          Did it used to be better? I rarely if ever used it before Google’s enshittification, but now I’m just happy to find streaming services whatever I need.

            • @OpenStars
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              -12 months ago

              Oh, “it” meaning Bing then, not DDG. Although I thought Bing had always been free… shows what I “know”!:-P

              • @pearsaltchocolatebar
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                72 months ago

                DDG uses Bing on the backend, and they have to pay for each query, so Bing affects DDG

                • @OpenStars
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                  12 months ago

                  Oh damn, thanks for the explanation! 😀

          • lad
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            22 months ago

            No, I’ve been using it for about 4 years or more, I think, and the search is stably kind of okay. Some time ago Google used to work when ddg failed, but…

    • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
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      52 months ago

      Yeah. It shows me first result article that copypasta from other place which is straight out wrong. Went to ddg and it start to show result that makes sense. It’s no wonder people look up reddit thread for info. It also doesn’t show too much oldschool forum, or at least it’s buried down 20page later. It’s unusable.