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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere(www.theverge.com)

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DreamButt@lemmy.world
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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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jagungal@lemmy.world
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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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Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de
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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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snowe@programming.dev
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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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Nommer@sh.itjust.works
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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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