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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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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 5 points 12 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 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 10 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 10 hours ago

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