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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 155 points 1 month ago (48 children)

they're pretty bad, but ddg at least feels like I'm getting actual results.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Yeah DDG is great. The only thing I find is its not good at local results but a quick !g on the end gets me the local results im looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Holy shit the bangs work at the end of the search query too!? I've always painfully pressed Home on my keyboard to add a !g whenever I realise I had better searched this on Google

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