tanteFirst it was: "Search is bad now, I'll just use Reddit to find answers.". Now Reddit is trying to kill itself while the search engines inject falsehood generators into their pipelines for weird reasons. Finding information is gonna get a lot harder.
Karl Voit 
@tante You're just using the wrong search engines. 🤷
C.Cameron 👻
Asimech@publicvoit @cameron @tante Startpage uses Google and Duckduckgo Bing for search results.
If Google and Bing inject output from falsehood generators to their results then unless there's a reliable way for Startpage and Duckduckgo to filter the generated nonsense they too will be repeating it.
If Google and Bing inject output from falsehood generators to their results then unless there's a reliable way for Startpage and Duckduckgo to filter the generated nonsense they too will be repeating it.
@Asimech @publicvoit @tante
Agreed. I do wonder how that will play out. I have felt like my search results are less relevant than a few years ago. Duck Duck Go or Ecosia have been my main search for ages. Seems like it's harder to search for very specific potentially obscure things, just get more general and less relevant results. Hard to be sure if that's real or just in my mind though.
Agreed. I do wonder how that will play out. I have felt like my search results are less relevant than a few years ago. Duck Duck Go or Ecosia have been my main search for ages. Seems like it's harder to search for very specific potentially obscure things, just get more general and less relevant results. Hard to be sure if that's real or just in my mind though.
@cameron It has felt like that to me on DuckDuckGo as well and like you I can't tell if I'm just imagining that DDG is giving more general responses.
But I did notice last year that using a plus sign or quotes to insist on a specific word or spelling didn't seem to do anything and definitely didn't affect results they way they used to a few years ago.
But I did notice last year that using a plus sign or quotes to insist on a specific word or spelling didn't seem to do anything and definitely didn't affect results they way they used to a few years ago.
@Asimech
I have noticed that too!
I have noticed that too!