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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 14:56:13 JST nixCraft 🐧

   I'm concerned about the quality of Google search results. Lately, I'm seeing Reddit links dominate the top spots, even when they're not the most relevant sources. Is there a reason for this? DuckDuckGo is giving out better results. What is going on? 🤔 Btw, if you connected to the vpn and not logged into the Reddit, you get lovely fake message from Reddit. The official Reddit app is crap too. What do you think?

   • Niels K. (nielsk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 14:57:49 JST Niels K.

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     @nixCraft Lately? Is t this going on for years now?
     I am a happy subscriber to kagi…

   • Stephane Audic (stephane_audic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 15:03:43 JST Stephane Audic

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     @nixCraft my experience is that google results more and more point me to places that want to sell me something and not teach me something. More and more i use #duckduckgo.

   • j4n3z (j4n3z@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 15:07:47 JST j4n3z

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     @nixCraft this is one of the reasons I prefer to use manpages and other documentation. After that I try to crawl project wiki and then random small blogs/git repos in search.
     Only after every single option above failed I admit my defeat and turn to reading old Reddit posts (like typically 3-10yrs old threads).

     Also weird results is why I don't use Google for years more than once after fresh browser install before I remember to change it to sth else 😅

   • xorgrox (xorgrox@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 15:20:40 JST xorgrox

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     @nixCraft Decentralisation is the only way out of this.

   • nulll (nulll@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 15:31:34 JST nulll

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     @nixCraft even the most powerful empire comes to an end.

     #Google images now deeply sucks, I think #Yandex images is way better now.

   • Yaksh Bariya (codingthunder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 15:52:21 JST Yaksh Bariya

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     @nixCraft redlib is the answer :)

   • words_number (words_number@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 20:21:29 JST words_number

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     @nixCraft You are witnessing the ongoing inevitable enshitification of google.

   • Mr. Kindle (luiszacarias@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 20:51:35 JST Mr. Kindle

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     @nixCraft Brave search is the best search engine for me today

   • Beam me out! (beammeout@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 21:20:16 JST Beam me out!

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     @nixCraft Interesting, I can't absolutely no reddit results, unless I specifically type "reddit" in the search query. Instead I get product suggestions for literally everything.