halcy​ May 27
okay so what search engine DO you use, right now, by default, in your browser?
Google
9.9%
DDG
57%
Kagi
10.5%
Other
22.6%
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Show threadWill OrrMay 27
@halcy I used DDG for more than a decade, and the results eventually became unusable until I prefixed almost every search with !g. Eventually, I switched to Kagi a few years ago, but in the last few months I feel like quality has also gotten worse.
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@worr I feel conversely that Kagi has gotten a bit better for me (and Google has gotten so much worse that I !g increasingly rarely, usually if I'm looking for some verbatim phrase that I know should be somewhere but Kagi didnt surface it)

I wonder where the divergent impressions come from. For me I guess a lot is I've downrated and uprated pages to customize and this is helping me a lot (recipes from the site I know is good, No Fucking Wikia Or Pinterest Ever, stuff like that)

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Show threadWill OrrMay 27

@halcy I use the downranking a lot as well tbh.

The failure mode that I tend to see personally, is that I'll search for something (arguably something more obscure, this isn't the common case by any means), and I'll get two pages of barely-related results and then nothing. The sites themselves aren't low-quality, but the problem is that they're just not related enough to what I was searching.