As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, “11 Best Sesame Substitutes,” and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.

I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.

Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.

  • BastianAI@lemmy.world
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    I don’t understand what the hell Google is doing. About 10 years ago I wanted to switch to DDG for privacy reasons but didn’t because I preferred the search results I got from Google - I switched to DDG last week to get better results. And it’s not just the main Google search, YouTube too has become terrible. I have a specific niche on youtube that I want to monitor and I’m struggling to use search to find relevant videos and the main page only want to recommend me 10-20 minute long videos of people talking about something. Appearently having all the data in the world isn’t enough to give me relevant results or recommendations.

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      It all gets mucked up when SEO and driving clicks get involved.

      I used DDG at my primary search, and even it doesn’t always return great results.