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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

duckduckgo.com only had 2 ads that were clearly identified when I just tried it. no idea how manipulated the rest of it is.

[–] substill@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Duck Duck Go search results are a little lacking, though, like it’s completely missing some possibilities. Looking up tech stuff for a Linux issue I’m having, Duck will miss a site that Google finds - and even if I enter the exact text of the site, it’s completely absent from Duck.

[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I really want to like DuckDuckGo, but the results are never right. I always end up going back to Google. But I'm a professional programmer, so it might be different for me.

[–] sock@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

i gotta use duck duck go on my work laptop. no sugarcoat its dogshit google is still better even tho google is getting worse