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[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

For reals. I never bookmarked anything as I'd just regoogle what I was looking for but as of six months ago I can't find shit. It's like it never existed and all I get is spam websites that's are skinned to looks genuine. I'm honestly going back to Askjeeves.com.....

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If it is any consolation, a good chunk of those bookmarks would lead to deadlinks or domains bought by someone else.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago

wayback machine and bookmark, name a more iconic duo...

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Until you stumble upon "we don't have that page archived", then the pain is real

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 1 year ago

Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

It's Bing without tracking. And the things like quotation marks still work. However, baseline search using it has still gone to shit.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

Did it used to be better? I rarely if ever used it before Google's enshittification, but now I'm just happy to find ~~streaming services~~ whatever I need.

It did, but Bing hiked their prices so it got shitty.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online -1 points 1 year ago

Oh, "it" meaning Bing then, not DDG. Although I thought Bing had always been free... shows what I "know"!:-P

DDG uses Bing on the backend, and they have to pay for each query, so Bing affects DDG

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, thanks for the explanation! 😀

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

No, I've been using it for about 4 years or more, I think, and the search is stably kind of okay. Some time ago Google used to work when ddg failed, but…

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It shows me first result article that copypasta from other place which is straight out wrong. Went to ddg and it start to show result that makes sense. It's no wonder people look up reddit thread for info. It also doesn't show too much oldschool forum, or at least it's buried down 20page later. It's unusable.

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