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72 points

They’re somehow WORSE than duckduckgo nowadays like how? You were the search leader, people used DDG for privacy reasons but they passed you??? Did you forget why you’re a company? It’s because you were the best fucking search engine ever and you decided to sell that title for ads or some shit. Incredible how Google fell off the fucking side of a mountain they themselves built!

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32 points

Yes, but have you considered, line must go up?

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26 points

For me it went from “great” to “usable” over the course of a decade or so, and then from “usable” to “worthless” over the course of six months. It’s a remarkably awful trajectory.

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And DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine for the last few years after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)

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you can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.

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2 points

So far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.

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1 point

Yea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks

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14 points

It’s pretty wild how Google search has degraded. The push for SEO has really ruined useful results.

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13 points

Kagi is even better than DDG. Google is absolutely horrendous.

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It’s interesting, but $120 a year is just too much for me.

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3 points

The lowest plan is only $54 a year and it’s most definitely worth it for the results.

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13 points

Is ddg actually good now? I remember it feeling nearly useless waay back when it was first hitting the scene. Might have to give it a shot again

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19 points

I’m not a power user, but I’ve used DDG exclusively for a while now and I often forget that I’m using it. I’d say it’s a pretty seamless transition nowadays.

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11 points

You actually get the results you are looking for without the sponsored links. Sometimes you end up searching for reddit results but that’s every search engine.

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Not kagi. I haven’t specified Reddit once since switching to kagi. It really is that much better than DDG and Google.

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I only use Google if DDG can’t find what I’m looking for. Usually Google doesn’t either if DDG can’t so lately I’ve been giving up after the DDG results. I can’t stand Google anymore. The first page of results is just ads and the next page is all irrelevant nonsense.

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