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[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 29 points 1 week ago

Google search is literally fucking dogshit and the worst it has EVER been. I'm starting to think fucking duckduckgo (relies on Bing) gives better results at this point.

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I have been using Duck for a few years now and I honestly prefer it to Google at this point. I'll sometimes switch to Google if I don't find anything on Duck, but that happens once every three or four months, if that.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I only go to the googs for maps.

[-] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I can't afford the water damage to the car.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

To this day any time I navigate somewhere with Google maps while someone else separately navigates there with apple maps, we end up at different places. More often than not, I'm where we both should've ended up.

[-] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting. In my experience, google maps is “too creative” on their routes. They usually send me to some back roads that only make my drive much longer.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I suspect that Google Maps preemptively routes some percentage of drivers through alternate directions in order to ease congestion. (Because if Maps tells you that the obvious route will get you there in thirty minutes and it takes an hour then you're going to be mad at Maps)

Regardless of their route choices, Maps is always solid with ETA for me and it has access to a ton of traffic data.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Same here. I only switch to google to search for images for memes. For some reason bing has a harder time finding random star trek scenes.

[-] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The one thing Google still has over Duck for me at this point is reddit results. So much niche information is stored on that site, but they've blocked anyone other than Google from crawling the site so other engines can't index past the point they changed that policy.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I use ddg but find Google gives better results and Google's snippet feature still rocks.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Careful. People here get mad about that for some reason. Like you can't think Google sucks but that their search engine is still better than others. And people will argue with you that Google is way worse than anything else. I don't know what planet they are from.

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 week ago

I don't like AI in search engines but even duckduckgo's AI is better lol.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

And they let you turn it off

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I'm in sciences and the AI overview gives wrong answers ALL THE TIME. If students or god forbid professionals rely on it thats bad news.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Isn't it funny that a lot of people were worried that wikipedia would be unreliable because anyone could edit it, then turned out pretty reliable, but AI is being pushed hard despite being even more unreliable than the worst speculation about wikipedia?

Being for profit excuses being shitty I guess.

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 week ago

AI is so fucking cap. There is no way to know if the information is accurate. It's completely unreliable.

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