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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] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Infinitely worse. I barely use search engines for issues these days and no longer recommend that people "Google" things.

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

What do you do instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Besides be sad and hit my head against a wall? Depending on the query, I'll sometimes use ChatGPT or find an associated Discord, subreddit or somewhere and hope for the best.

I'm disappointed a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I bang my head against search engines. Normally I can find something decent after multiple searches, but it never used to be this way.

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