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
    30•2 years 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

    • David
      10•2 years ago

      +1 for DDG

      And thank you for reminding about bangs

    • @CanadaPlus
      6•2 years ago

      How did I not know about that already? I’ve been on DDG for a years.

        • @CanadaPlus
          3•2 years ago

          O damn! That’s bound to come in handy.

        • @SatyrSack@lemmy.one
          1•2 years 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

    • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
      3•2 years 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 super annoying having to put “-site:msn.com” behind your query every so often.