• li10@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Well when the alternative is Bing quality search results, Google still has a slight edge.

    That gap is closing by the day tho.

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      5 months ago

      The gap has been favouring bing (DuckDuckGo) for a while now in my experience. Every time I use Google or just doesn’t find what I’m looking for. Just a few days ago, when Bing was down and I had to use Google, I tried searching for the new beta nvidia Linux drivers. Google didn’t even include the official nvidia site in the first page of results. When I later searched for the same thing again, using DuckDuckGo, it was the first result… and stuff like that happens every time I need to use Google. The only category Google still seems to have a slight edge in is current (as in happening right now) events.

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        5 months ago

        DDG since 2016 when I had to switch because I was in China. Never went back and with everything I hear about Google, I don’t plan to. Only Google thing I still have and enjoy is Maps.

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      5 months ago

      The index is technically a bit better, but not only just as swamped with the same SE optimized shit, but also packed with irrelevant bullshit.

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      5 months ago

      I find myself switching to Yandex when both Bing nor Google give good results.