Ddg has really gone downhill lately too. They’ve started injecting ads for local businesses that are completely unrelated to the search terms. Like not even a single word in common. And they serve them as regular search results so you can’t even block them.
Actually now that I’m thinking about it, I actually haven’t seen those in a month or two …
Heh. I VPN enough that had not noticed the local business ads, as of yet.
On the non-targeted ads, I always figure if the business is dumb enough to pay for such a poor quality match, to subsidize a tool I like using, then that’s a win for everybody.
Ddg has really gone downhill lately too. They’ve started injecting ads for local businesses that are completely unrelated to the search terms. Like not even a single word in common. And they serve them as regular search results so you can’t even block them.
Actually now that I’m thinking about it, I actually haven’t seen those in a month or two …
There’s also so much Microsoft crap now. Why do all news articles and videos send you to Microsoft Start or whatever it’s called?
So what is an actually useful search engine these days? I want to find stuff without being infuriated by the process
I just use ChatGPT+ or Perplexity. It’s 2023, why should I do web searches, that’s a robot’s job.
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Heh. I VPN enough that had not noticed the local business ads, as of yet.
On the non-targeted ads, I always figure if the business is dumb enough to pay for such a poor quality match, to subsidize a tool I like using, then that’s a win for everybody.