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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MTK@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

they're pretty bad, but ddg at least feels like I'm getting actual results.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know that's just Bing, right?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

is it? that kind of makes sense, because I still use Bing occasionally while Google is completely out of rotation, although I don't find Bing as good as duckduckgo.

edit: it is not! looks like the DuckDuckGo search engine is an aggregate of hundreds of search engines, including their own duck duck bot, excluding Google but including some Bing results.

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