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What search engine do you use? (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by SemioticStandard to c/technology

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Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I'll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you're careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It's useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

This article on Ars (and if you're not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

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[–] tenet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

DDG is literally Bing. At least in part. It aggregates results from a handful of places.

Since DDG doesn't do user tracking shit it never learns what you may be searching for when you use a specific term. For example if I search for "Rangers score" it always kicks back a NY Rangers score and not a Texas Rangers score. Why? Popularity.

You have to be a bit more specific than you otherwise would but it works okay. I still fall back to Google when I need to get down to some obscure shit but day to day DDG does it for me.