Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

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Search engine results are getting worse, research confirms
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I use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/

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And no way to set my country.

you could set your country with a vpn 😎

That's less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.

They also don't allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(

Whoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - "best tires"

My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider.

Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.

Aren't all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?

That's the biggest problem, can't even get straight data and ads separately. Now the articles are the ads, and SEO/adspace has made search results even less useful.

"DDG" refers to DuckDuckGo

just writing this for others who might've been confused like i was before looking it up

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