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Many searches are useless without including reddit.com

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As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, “11 Best Sesame Substitutes,” and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.

I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.

Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.

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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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Yeah, Duckduckgo, but I find accuracy a bit questionable. It’s not as predictive as Google. If you have suggestions though I’ll def try them.

Apparently Bing is great for porn but I wouldn’t know.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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DDG is just Bing anyway

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danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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At least it doesn’t have AMP.

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localme@lemm.ee
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Underrated comment.

Fwiw, Amplosion is a great iOS app/safari extension to de-AMP google search results. Bonus: it’s made by Christian Selig, the dev behind Apollo (rip).

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dingus@lemmy.world
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DuckDuckGo is shit. It doesn’t even understand basic syntax like quotes for some reason. I would rather have it only give me a few results to my query as opposed to showing me unrelated nonsense. Through the years I will occasionally try to give it a chance, but I can never find anything useful with it.

Then everyone tells me “well, I just use DuckDuckGo to search Google using !g”. Well what the heck is the point of doing that? Now I have to type two extra characters to search the exact same search engine I was using anyway.

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HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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Then everyone tells me “well, I just use DuckDuckGo to search Google using !g”. Well what the heck is the point of doing that?

The point is to only use Google when DDG doesn’t give the results you want.

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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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I agree with you. I just never get very useful results from it.

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