Google search results are so terrible that at this point it's a mercy.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Alphabet/Google needs to fire their CEO. He’s an obvious idiot, not good with employees, not good with investors, and not good at lobbying. That’s like 99% of a CEO’s job. Just get rid of him and Google’s stock price will probably jump 20%.
Is DuckDuckGo still the best alternative at this point, or has Bing been toiling away in the dark to improve itself?
DDG uses Bing under the hood for the main results, so it doesn't really matter too much in terms of results.
You can also use Ecosia, if your prefer a different shade of lipstick on your ~~pig~~ search results.
In terms of result quality? In my opinion, based on my particular search habits:
Kagi > SearXNG > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing
Everyone is going to have their own opinions on each of those companies, but from a results lens, that's what I find to be most/least effective.
I didn't expect this. You mean it doesn't have ads? All I tend to get for hits on Google are paid search results anyway. Surely they'll soon bring some ad links into these results.
Like all Google products, they will still make a halfhearted attempt to make it as useful as they can before absolutely destroying it with ads
I’m so glad I switched to Kagi. The writing was on the wall once they started rolling out the AI suggestions wide.
i haven't used Google for search in years. duck duck go ftw
Alright should I switch to Lyca or HotBot?
Microsoft doesn't want to end up like Google. Fuck that company! One way you can tell is on outlook...which I use with a proper 10' pole on my work computer only. Fuck no, never at home ever ever.... Have you ever received an email on outlook and just saw the title or maybe you read halfway through and got interrupted?.... Where the fuck is it now? Its gone! Sure you could go email by email and try to be your own search engine. But its no use, whatever Tim was talking about with the over pressured valve at the Central boiler, blah blah you should let people know to exit the blah blah, otherwise 3rd degree bur...yeah that shit's gone. Might as well write your own email to finish the story. See, Microsoft doesn't want to be like Google at all. On my 14.9992G full gmail, I was always able to go find out what Amazon offer I got 8 years ago. Look 404! Yeah that's it! 404! With Gemini spying on my every move that's gotta stop. It's gonna try to learn my porn habits. I'm gonna go search for all the wrong porn on purpose.
And we still pay the vig to AdWords or does all my money go to LinkedIn now?