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What is the least SEO-fucked search engine? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by leninmummy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This explains why their results are so much worse than Google’s.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

5 years ago sure. Not sure I really agree nowadays.
Granted, that has as much to do with Google getting much worse as it does DDG getting better.

[–] brecht@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Palpable 2015 energy in this take right here.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

For some things. For other things they're better. Google has really jumped the shark in the past two years.

I mostly just use it for when I want corporate style results, like shopping.