• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Interestingly according to the linked paper, DDG (and naturally Bing) are significantly performing worse than Google, even in the face of Google having gotten worse.

    I always had a gut feeling about that when using DDG, but interesting to see the numerical difference. (31% vs 23% vs 9% spam)

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      6 months ago

      DDG is worse, at least anecdotally. But kagi is much better. Looks like the researchers didn’t study that one though so no “proof”, but anecdotally I completely stopped using Google for search.

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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      6 months ago

      Other search engines can be worse, but if we keep using google and allowing them to have the monopoly, no search engine will ever get better.