I use DuckDuckGo, you can configure it as your default search engine in Firefox.
I find myself hitting the same issues with ddg as with Google. The 1st page trys to sell me the thing I want info on
I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks
You can turn sponsor off in setting or use start.duckduckgo.com
I find their ad is much more clearly marked than google.
I use DDG when coding and generally find it to be a bit nicer, but from the article it sounds like they're prone to the same issues. Anecdotally, I have noticed non-code queries do seem to be similarly crap
ETA: You can set it as default in Chrome too, under Settings -> Search Engine
I've turned to devdocs.io for my API documentation needs, which saves me the step of searching at all.
I use DuckDuckGo, you can configure it as your default search engine in Firefox.
I find myself hitting the same issues with ddg as with Google. The 1st page trys to sell me the thing I want info on
I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks
You can turn sponsor off in setting or use start.duckduckgo.com
I find their ad is much more clearly marked than google.
I use DDG when coding and generally find it to be a bit nicer, but from the article it sounds like they're prone to the same issues. Anecdotally, I have noticed non-code queries do seem to be similarly crap
ETA: You can set it as default in Chrome too, under Settings -> Search Engine
I've turned to devdocs.io for my API documentation needs, which saves me the step of searching at all.