• sylverstream@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    I switched to DDG and then to Kagi based on all the praise it gets here. So much better than Google!

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Interestingly according to the linked paper, DDG (and naturally Bing) are significantly performing worse than Google, even in the face of Google having gotten worse.

      I always had a gut feeling about that when using DDG, but interesting to see the numerical difference. (31% vs 23% vs 9% spam)

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        10 months ago

        DDG is worse, at least anecdotally. But kagi is much better. Looks like the researchers didn’t study that one though so no “proof”, but anecdotally I completely stopped using Google for search.

      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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        10 months ago

        Other search engines can be worse, but if we keep using google and allowing them to have the monopoly, no search engine will ever get better.

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      10 months ago

      I keep hearing about Kagi, are they reputable? I moved from Google to DDG and I do a fair bit of searching so I would be interested, but I guess there’s a bit of a one-company-knowing-my-search-history going on (totally unironically).

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        10 months ago

        I haven’t done extensive research, but as it’s a paid product, they have the user’s interest in mind, instead of ad revenue.