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rdh <
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> On 9/7/23 11:24, The Real Bev wrote:
>> Google may have a lot to answer for, but it was originally the absolute
>> best search engine and deserved its popularity. Now it throws up a lot
>> of trash before you find anything even close to what you`re looking for,
>> but is there anything actually better?
>
> Depending on what you`re looking for, DuckDuckGo might offer better
> results, but barely.
Of course DDG really get their results from Bing (they even admit
it now), so it`s still built on one of the evil tech empires
(Microsoft).
DDG offer a great "Lite" mode though, and URL parameters allow
customisations like disabling advertising, so functionality-wise
they still win out for me. I toyed with switching to SearX, but it
doesn`t have a similar lightweight interface, and the instances pop
up and down like yo-yos.
> Search is kind of dead, thanks to all of the
> blogspam out there gaming the system.
I often use "site:" to search within specific big websites that are
likely to have the content that I want, in combination with direct
searches on those websites if they have the ability (and it doesn`t
rely on Javascript).
But I can`t remember exactly how well search engines worked in the
past to know whether they`ve got better or worse. The range of
content that`s available on the live (as opposed to archived) web
might have got weaker in some areas though.
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