• ollie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    fuck this bruh. google search is worthless and adding reddit to a search query was the only way to make it bearable…

    anyone know any good alternatives? maybe some search catalogue with multiple sources including a reddit scrape?

      • Paradox@lemdro.id
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        1 year ago

        Kagi is goat.

        My favorite feature is their universal summarizer. It can even do videos and podcasts

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          1 year ago

          It allows you to search a collection of sources for information. Maybe you want to search a group of 20 tech blogs that you trust, just as one example.

          Before Google, this was a common technique used by search engines to direct users to trusted content sources.

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        1 year ago

        I use duck as my first choice, but unless I’m just looking up one word, it doesn’t find much useful. If I look for a specific question, duck doesn’t work at all and I have to go back to google. google is way worse than it used to be, but it’s still better than any other I have found yet.

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          1 year ago

          I very rarely go back to google but at least it’s very easy to do with bangs “!g [search Query]”

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          1 year ago

          I guess the times duckduckgo works better for me is when I’m looking for answers Google is able to identify, but chooses to filter out, like in psychedelic trip reports

    • chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The only thing google search is good for anynore is recipies. Thebonly good product they make anymore is maps.

      Duckduckgo isnt much better.

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        1 year ago

        Even their recipe search is abysmal

        Look up something like schnitzel and you’ll have 7 paragraphs of AI slop, telling you about the author, the history of the dish, the weather, a new cookbook for sale, before you get to the actual recipe