[aspbee555]

AI has made it significantly easier to find exactly the answers I was looking for without all the BS designed to trick me into clicking something I never wanted/is completely useless, but I will still jump to DuckDuckGo to look for more as the "AI" is really great at making things up that do not exist. The AI summaries can be just as bad. Soon it will just be search results of AI hallucinations, so not really sure where this is all going

I stopped using Google search years ago as it became nothing but useless results that led to garbage I wasn't looking for. I at least still get good results from DuckDuckGo somehow

[andrekandre]

  > I stopped using Google search years ago as it became nothing but useless results that led to garbage I wasn't looking for.

it really is kind of shocking; anecdote: i was doing a search for an obscure error message and the links i got on duck duck go was matching that exact message whereas in google i got literally zero results...

[zajio1am]

I have an opposite experience. I use predominantly DDG (mainly for UI reasons), but often the search results are much less relevant than from Google, or i got exact zero results, where Google finds plenty of instances of searched phrase.

[aspbee555]

I find Google is still really good at finding things for maps/navigation (and I contribute greatly to maps with pictures/reviews), but even that has become a problem with results of places that do not exist (and reviews from owners that say a place never existed where maps is saying)

depends on what you are searching for, but the constant attempts to trick me into useless garbage ads has destroyed reliability/my trust in their general search

[andrekandre]

some things google is still better at for sure, but the gap is closing imo

[csomar]

Google has de-indexed most of the web and stopped indexing anything that doesn’t get significant traction.