The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?
  • CustodialTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    258·
    10 months ago

    The fact you’re saying you’re still getting useful results on Google means you haven’t used Google for the past year to me.

    • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      They said as useful as Google. Not that Google gives objectively very useful results. And I agree with them. I use DuckDuckGo every day and pretty much every time I have to add !g to send my query to Google because the DDG results are shit in comparison.

      I’m talking about on the desktop btw. With adblocking and script blocking. I accidentally used Google on my phone yesterday and I think I got cancer.

      • Rubanski@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        What’s the difference between using !g and going to Google directly?

        • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          The results are still tailored to you on Google, based on past usage and tracking history. They aren’t with a bang.

          • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            10 months ago

            This is incorrect.

            DDG just just performs a simple redirect to Google with the query, where the latter has access to cookies, past usage (especially if one is logged in to Google), etc.

              • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                31·
                10 months ago

                Yes. The !bangs in DDG are for convenience and not for privacy. The convenience of not opening the intended website, and typing/pasting the query to perform the search.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Seriously. If I want to hope to get any result that is mildly useful, I’m obligated to add a specific site on the query, either wiki or reddit.