M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable

renzev@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 1448 points –

It's impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

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Doesnt Duck use bing?

Yes, and DDG has really been degrading over the last few months in quality of results imo.

I noticed this as well. It's a shame as I still use it as my daily search driver.

I'll be honest, DDG has never blown me away and I've been using it for roughly 5 years. It's not awful or anything, but maybe once every month or two I need to resort to Google because it can't find something. I'm absolutely willing to sacrifice some quality for privacy in the general case, though.

Yes, it has never been the best in terms of relevance or depth of index. But lately when I do searches for something like "cherry shrimp aquarium water quality requirements" I've been overwhelmed by AI-written SEO blogs. Where google still pulls up results from forums, reddit, other relevant actual humans talking.