10mo ago

Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?

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Google has been useless for me for years now. I switched to DuckDuckGo like 5 years ago and every now and then if I accidentally even stray onto Google, I'm just scared by the results
- You're saying Bing has better results than Google?
  
  Not who you replied to, but I've been using DuckDuckGo for years knowing it's limitations and would occasionally use Google if I needed more specific search results, however, these days Google Search is about the same as DDG and (even as a fan) I have to admit DDG was never and is not a spectacular search engine. Honestly, the thing that surprises me most is that when I get inadequate results from DDG and try Google, the results are basically the same. Not a great look for Google.
  
  Are you me?
  
  Same thought. Try kagi search. Search is better, I believe they use their own indexing, and you're their customer, not the product, so there's incentive to providing good service to customer instead of being treated like cattle and it shows!
  
  DuckDuckGo is not Bing, though they get most of their results from Bing so they end up pretty similar.
  And yes, I would say it's better. Not that Bing is particularly good and their search results have also taken a nosedive. But they are still way better than the garbage results I get out of Google.
- I came here to say this. Partly due to behavioral changes on my part, DDG's results have been closer to what I'm looking for. At school, they block DDG on the WiFi, so I use Google there and I have to flick past many ads and results that look good from the summary, but have nothing to do with what I'm looking for when load the page.
  
  Excuse me? Why would DDG be banned from a wifi network?

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