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What do you all search with? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I've mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with "site:reddit.com", but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well...?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I personally like duck duck go, the results are generally pretty good, and if they aren't, it's easy to search on other engines using DDG's bangs. You just type "!g search term" and you can search on Google, and there's a bunch more, like !w for Wikipedia, !aur for the arch user repo etc etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did I not know about that already? I've been on DDG for a years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a lot of bangs as well.

Try !loblaws maple syrup as I see you're from Canada.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

O damn! That's bound to come in handy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for DDG

And thank you for reminding about bangs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only issue I have with DDG is the news tab being filled to the brim with MSN.com. I get that DDG uses Bing search but it's still annoying having to put "-site:msn.com" behind your query every so often.