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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My thought always was that DDG was good to set as my default, and if I'm not happy with the results then it's not a big deal to use Google once in awhile.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Just use start page instead for Google results. That’s what I do.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mullvad has recently made their google search proxy free for everyone. It’s a good alternative to startpage: https://leta.mullvad.net/

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I like startpage more still. Mullvad’s ui sucks.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yo, startpage looks sick. I'll have to poke around and see if I can find more info on that it looks super useful. My quick test just now was "cloture 2025" which returned 4 news articles followed by basically nothing but .gov links, whereas Google returns way more "news"

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Wow this is way cleaner than google. Just straight text search results for the most part.