Google Search Is Dying | DKB
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Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.

Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.

I think it’s a little extreme but agree generally.

  • Zerush
    6·
    3 years ago

    I stay with Andisearch, Whoogle, Metager and DDG (the only proprietary search engine in my collection). Supposing Reddit search is worse than Google, respect privacy, it shares data with Google, M$, and with this with TowerData (keylogging) and others. Reddit is worse than FB, because of this I use Lemmy or Raddle.

      • Zerush
        2·
        3 years ago

        I think it’s generally a good sign for a searcher’s privacy, if you look at the adressbar and the search url that shows up and also shows up like that in the history.

        For example, if I search with Andi, Whoogle and other search engines that respect privacy, regardless of what I search, only https://searchengine/search appears in the adressbar and in the history, in all others apears https://searchengine/search/object of the search which also later apears in the history.

        Searching Lemmy With Brave search in the adressbar and history https://search.brave.com/search?q=lemmy

        Same search with Whoogle https://whoogle.sdf.org/search

        In Andi only apears the url of the Andisearch https://andisearch.com

        With Metager apart of the item, apear the config code https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=lemmy&submit-query=&focus=web

        All these respect privacy and only stores the history locally, but its better when the search item don’t apear in the history, because of this, Whoogle, Andi and Startpage are those which I use most, Metager, DDG and others only in occasions to contrast some information.