[eino]

> It's not like you are going to switch to Bing

From personal experience, I switched to another tool (DDG) a couple of years ago. When I occasionally try Google, for 95% of common requests I'm appalled by the results: the top is only SEO garbage. For very specific and precise searches (where people are not trying to game the system), Google is still the best, though.

[simonbarker87]

Huh, you've given me a realisation - I don't do 'generic searching' on google anymore. I hear people say "google is broken" and I always think "it's fine for me" but thats because I'm searching for specific things, error messages, function calls etc. If I am searching for general interest stuff I tend to search reddit, hacker news or some other topic specific community rather than just search google

[AussieWog93]

I just realised I do something similar - almost every term I search will have the word "Reddit" appended to it. It's not perfect, but at least the content is intended for human consumption.

[lvncelot]

Same for me, `site:reddit.com` for almost everything that has to do with product recommendations or reviews.

[atatatat]

Putting this here makes it even less likely marketers will miss "gaming reddit" as part of their strategy.

[fakedang]

They already do, but mods have a vested interest in keeping communities clean.

[jitbit]

Me too, but DDG is using Bing under the hood though.

[DaiPlusPlus]

I thought that was just for image search?

[FridayoLeary]

I agree. Although DDG isn't exactly a bed of roses either.

[WarOnPrivacy]

DDG's refusal to honor booleans is putting a gun to it's own head.

The best is minus operands acting more like plus or quotes.