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In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing
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Google is almost useless as a search engine and i haven't used it for over a year.
It’s getting more common to get pages of word soup result, sites that just contain a huge dump of scraped Reddit comments.
I tried to search a torrent from rutracker in duckduckgo. Got no results, then tried Google with
search term site:rutracker.organd the first result was what I was looking for.Strange considering you would expect things to be other way around.
I'm seeing comments like this all the time and I'm always baffled. I'm using DuckDuckGo as a main search engine but I have to fall back to Google quite often because DuckDuckGo is just worse for me. And any other search engine I tried was even worse that that. It's true that Google results don't feel as accurate as they used to, but I genuinely haven't found better alternatives. What do you recommend?
It could be that you and I are searching for different subjects. I typically am looking for parts for something, and various parts suppliers (cars, industrial equipment, forklifts) have SEO'ed themselves to the top of the list even though they dont have what you searched for.
I see. For me it's mostly programming stuff. As long as the issue in question isn't very obscure then DuckDuckGo is doing fine. However, if it's mentioned in a single 5 year old GitHub issue then Google is pretty much the only chance to find it in my experience.