boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoResearchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worsewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1617arrow-down111cross-posted to: degoogle@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaredunz@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoI use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
minus-squarerdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·10 months ago Thanks for your visit Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country. And no way to set my country.
minus-squareaffiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoyou could set your country with a vpn 😎
minus-squarerdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoThat’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
minus-squareiturnedintoanewt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoThey also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
minus-squareGot_Bent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·10 months agoWhoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires” My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider. Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.
minus-squareslumberlust@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoAren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
minus-squarebaseless_discourse@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoI think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately. https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342 I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.
minus-squaremaness300@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.
minus-squareToldry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months ago“DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up
I use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
And no way to set my country.
you could set your country with a vpn 😎
That’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
They also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
Whoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires”
My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider.
Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.
Aren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
I think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately.
https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342
I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.
I wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.
“DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo
just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up