The thing that upsets me most about this article is that when I try other search engines, I still find myself needing to use Google to find certain things. Usually that’s information or questions and not products, but if it’s this bad for Google I can’t imagine it’s any easier on the others.
Yeah, I tried for a long time to use DuckDuckGo, but honestly the results are worse than Google, even given the present day enshittified state of Google search. And it eventually just became too annoying.
I use DDG and what solved the problem for me are the “bangs”. Not satisfied with the results? Add !g or !b to try another search engine.
Want to look at up at wikipedia? add !wiki? google scholar? !gsc . Super convenient, so I don’t really care that much anymore how crap the search engine is because I can use ddg as a searching “hub”.
ChatGPT has no concept of truth or sources. It will straight up lie to you.
It’s nice for “creative” stuff but never, ever take its responses at face value.
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The thing that upsets me most about this article is that when I try other search engines, I still find myself needing to use Google to find certain things. Usually that’s information or questions and not products, but if it’s this bad for Google I can’t imagine it’s any easier on the others.
Yeah, I tried for a long time to use DuckDuckGo, but honestly the results are worse than Google, even given the present day enshittified state of Google search. And it eventually just became too annoying.
I use DDG and what solved the problem for me are the “bangs”. Not satisfied with the results? Add !g or !b to try another search engine.
Want to look at up at wikipedia? add !wiki? google scholar? !gsc . Super convenient, so I don’t really care that much anymore how crap the search engine is because I can use ddg as a searching “hub”.
I just use chatgpt 4. Much better at answering questions.
ChatGPT has no concept of truth or sources. It will straight up lie to you.
It’s nice for “creative” stuff but never, ever take its responses at face value.