• @ArghZombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We had some good variety of search engines back in the day. Alta vista, Hotbot, Infoseek, Yahoo… Now it’s just Google, or slightly worse versions.

    I know people say to use DuckDuckGo but I never get as useful results there as on Google. I just have to scroll past a lot more ads on Google to get to the actual links.

    • @CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world
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      171 year ago

      The fact you’re saying you’re still getting useful results on Google means you haven’t used Google for the past year to me.

      • @Plopp@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They said as useful as Google. Not that Google gives objectively very useful results. And I agree with them. I use DuckDuckGo every day and pretty much every time I have to add !g to send my query to Google because the DDG results are shit in comparison.

        I’m talking about on the desktop btw. With adblocking and script blocking. I accidentally used Google on my phone yesterday and I think I got cancer.

      • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Seriously. If I want to hope to get any result that is mildly useful, I’m obligated to add a specific site on the query, either wiki or reddit.

    • @AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      There is brave search, which seemed pretty good to me, even though i am using kagi search now. And to be honest, so far kagi seems really solid, and if you go past the fact that you have to pay for it (on most other search engines you are the product) then give it a try, the first 100 searches are free.