Rikudou_Sage to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoGoogle search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study saysarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1613file-text
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minus-square@deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglish64•5 months agoI switched to DDG merely to get rid of Google’s irrelevant paid results up top. If I’m searching for brand model manual I don’t need every competitor’s marketing detritus. Likewise contact details etc… it’s maddening.
minus-squarePxtllinkfedilinkEnglish13•5 months agoYes, but DDG seems to have worse organic results in my experience. I mean the bar is low, but DDG falls under it.
minus-square@deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months agoOh yeah, the results are worse, but at least I can filter with search grammar and not also have to mentally filter out the ads too. I’m not sure if we’ve ended up back at the ol’ altavista/askjeeves keyword-stuffed hell yet, but it’s close.
minus-square@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoNah, AltaVista is where it’s really at.
I switched to DDG merely to get rid of Google’s irrelevant paid results up top.
If I’m searching for brand model manual I don’t need every competitor’s marketing detritus.
Likewise contact details etc… it’s maddening.
Yes, but DDG seems to have worse organic results in my experience. I mean the bar is low, but DDG falls under it.
Oh yeah, the results are worse, but at least I can filter with search grammar and not also have to mentally filter out the ads too.
I’m not sure if we’ve ended up back at the ol’ altavista/askjeeves keyword-stuffed hell yet, but it’s close.
So Bing. Got it
Nah, AltaVista is where it’s really at.
I’m talking about how DDG is just Bing-ish.