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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[-] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

I have the same situation. DDG has a feature where you can write "!g query" and search for "query" on Google. I use that as a fallback whenever DDG fails to yield good results - it's super easy!

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

I did not know that!

[-] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

You can do a lot of sites! https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

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