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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.

I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.

But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.

Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.

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[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I currently hate all search engines. If I have to type reddit at the end of every search, it is not really a search engine.

[–] Green_Mouse@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about Google, but DuckDuckGo sometimes even shows completely opposite things, even when I write Reddit at the end... finding something very specific or niche is a challenge.

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I am confused as to how do they make a good service worse?

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

In the case of google they purposely made it worse so that people spent more time on their site rather than other sites. This means they see more ads from google as opposed to ads on another website. They've just doubled down on this with AI summaries, too. Now they just blatantly take content from websites so you don't have to go to the website that made it at all.

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