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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches?

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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ceenote@lemmy.world
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My thought always was that DDG was good to set as my default, and if I’m not happy with the results then it’s not a big deal to use Google once in awhile.

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PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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Just use start page instead for Google results. That’s what I do.

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edric@lemm.ee
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Mullvad has recently made their google search proxy free for everyone. It’s a good alternative to startpage: https://leta.mullvad.net/

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PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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I like startpage more still. Mullvad’s ui sucks.

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JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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Yo, startpage looks sick. I’ll have to poke around and see if I can find more info on that it looks super useful. My quick test just now was “cloture 2025” which returned 4 news articles followed by basically nothing but .gov links, whereas Google returns way more “news”

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Tim_Bisley@piefed.social
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Wow this is way cleaner than google. Just straight text search results for the most part.

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