Google’s results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they’ve taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I’ve mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with “site:reddit.com”, but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well…?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

  • ShadyGrove@beehaw.org
    27·
    1 year ago

    I personally like duck duck go, the results are generally pretty good, and if they aren’t, it’s easy to search on other engines using DDG’s bangs. You just type “!g search term” and you can search on Google, and there’s a bunch more, like !w for Wikipedia, !aur for the arch user repo etc etc

    • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      The only issue I have with DDG is the news tab being filled to the brim with MSN.com. I get that DDG uses Bing search but it’s still annoying having to put “-site:msn.com” behind your query every so often.

      • maynarkh@feddit.nl
        2·
        1 year ago

        There are a lot of bangs as well.

        Try !loblaws maple syrup as I see you’re from Canada.

        • SatyrSack@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          And to see if there is a bang already for a website you use often, use !bang lemmy or whatever to see the list of !bangs for that site