Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people's lived experience—says different.

You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds::Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people’s lived experience—says different.

  • sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Because I’m too lazy to do my own research; does someone have actual good experience with something else?

    I’m using Brave search and it’s good for most things if I add an extra keyword, but not good for local results.

    Thanks in advance for all the Brave downvotes.

        • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I’ve heard people say that the answer is no, but in looking into it just now myself it looks like rather it is sometimes yes as well.

          Basically the best way to describe it seems to be that it is “NOT Google, and MOSTLY does not want to be FULLY Bing (but still is somewhat, they’re wanting to work on it, but to be clear they do have embedded Microsoft trackers that they are forced to leave in due to their licensing agreement)”.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I would NOT use it for shopping, I tried that recently and got a ton of really sketchy looking sites with way too cheap products that had no internet presence before this month. This might be more pronounced if you search specific product model numbers like I was rather than general terms.

        I’ve had it be mostly okay on other stuff. I use it over Google but mostly because I don’t want to pay for a search engine.

    • Fixbeat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I use Duck Duck Go. It seems okay to me, but I admit that I haven’t tried anything else.