Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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    1 year ago

    DDG is my default search engine but there are some types of searches that it’s not good at yet, so I find myself often toggling between the two after I see that DDGs response isn’t going to cut it.

    Earlier today I was searching for a really specific Python error message and google had zero results. I tried Yandex and got the correct result on the first response.

    Each search engine seems to be optimizing for a certain type of query and answer.

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      1 year ago

      Ive started going to chatgpt to help me out with errors i dont understand and google hasnt helped with

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        1 year ago

        Same, it helps with a lot of issues and even skips the part where people are questioning why you even want to know that and how you’re doing it the wrong way and should do their way

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        1 year ago

        Yesssss, me too. And often it gets to the right response on the first try which is the ultimate timesaver. This is why Google may be toast unless they can figure out how to integrate this.

        The only caveat is that sometimes Chatgpt just hallucinates an answer or it’s incomplete, so you need a bit more dead reckoning to make sure you’re going the right way.