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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not just you.

DDG has deteriorated to absolute nonsense, I’ve used it for years and years.

Recently gave startpage another go - maybe marginally better but still really poor

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I switched to DDG right after Google added the ai answers to search and in baffled by how fast DDG seemed to go down hill. Just a few months ago it was still giving me on point results on the first try, now it almost feels like I'm using one of those malware search bars from back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

yes - it’s a recent thing, no more that a few months I think

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

DDG still mostly fine for me, but anytime I use Google I'm reminded why I left. I wonder how much Googles beancounter enshittification has to do with that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

DDG has also really gone downhill for me. It's still noticeably better than Google, but DDG nows does a lot of the same shit that originally made me give up on Google years ago. I'm assuming a big part of this is because DDG heavily sources their results from Bing, and while Bing does manage to be better than Google, it's not much better.

I really need to put some effort into trying out a few more search engines and seeing if they are any better. Last time I looked, many of them were also pulling results from Bing so they all had similar issues.