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Why would anyone in 2024 honestly switch to google products.
They are worse than microsoft, and that takes effort.
Well when the alternative is Bing quality search results, Google still has a slight edge.
That gap is closing by the day tho.
That gap has flipped. Bing never told me to put glue on pizza or to jump off a bridge if depressed.
~~It is telling you to eat that deadly mushroom though.~~
If you are referring to the gemini ai model that identified a deadly mushroom as a button mushroom, then that is also google.
You are correct!
It just knows my preferences
The gap has been favouring bing (DuckDuckGo) for a while now in my experience. Every time I use Google or just doesn’t find what I’m looking for. Just a few days ago, when Bing was down and I had to use Google, I tried searching for the new beta nvidia Linux drivers. Google didn’t even include the official nvidia site in the first page of results. When I later searched for the same thing again, using DuckDuckGo, it was the first result… and stuff like that happens every time I need to use Google. The only category Google still seems to have a slight edge in is current (as in happening right now) events.
The index is technically a bit better, but not only just as swamped with the same SE optimized shit, but also packed with irrelevant bullshit.
What are you guys actually using?
DDG since 2016 when I had to switch because I was in China. Never went back and with everything I hear about Google, I don't plan to. Only Google thing I still have and enjoy is Maps.
If you are willing to pay kagi is great.
I find myself switching to Yandex when both Bing nor Google give good results.
Their CEO is a nutjob tho
Nah, the way Microsoft and Edge work still enrages me. I just use both Chrome and Firefox atm, with Chrome behind my VPN and Firefox split tunneled. I'm still on 10, but when I have the freedom to do so I'm going to switch to Linux. I can't just up and do it at the moment because I work through my computer and also game through it, so I need to have a ton of things ensured workable before I switch. That requires time and testing, and in an ideal environment a second system to run in parallel, which I cannot do atm.
I've heard our work may be purchasing work laptops for us, so I might be able to do my switch then.
Im not saying use Edge or Bing.
I use firefox and admittedly Bing and DDG.
Im in the same boat as you, when 10 goes, Im going to go back to(see Vista Era) linux as much as possible.
There are at least 3 of us! Lmao, we have until Oct 15th 2025 for win 10
Microsoft is magnitudes worse than google.
@anarchist @kbin_space_program in the same sense that pissing yourself is better than shitting yourself maybe
Well, it is.
Better than magma toots
Bing (and therefore duckduckgo) was down a couple days ago. I could imagine people temporarily switching to google during the outage.
Yea, had to use google for a few searches and man was it frustrating. Like, I was looking for the new beta nvidia drivers on Linux, and google, for some reason, didn’t see it necessary to show me the official nvidia site in the first page of results. In DuckDuckGo, later that day, when it was available again, it was result N°1
After one Google search on my work laptop I was looking for searx instances - a lot of those were going down too due to rate limiting 😭
Because most people are not anywhere near as computer literate as much of Lemmy would have you believe.