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DuckDuckGo starting to give more "personal" search results (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Cataphract@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Been slowly running into more results from DDG that seem to have some "personal parameter" or difference in search results. I had a search saved from some months ago, went to check it for some references and got new hits involving local organizations that had nothing to do with the search. Opening up a private browser I see that the searches aren't 100% matching up either.

I see this as only getting worse, I want to be able to enter a search and it searches for my query. Not based on my personality or whatever info is being collected. Does anyone know a search engine that's reliable and focuses on giving the same results and doesn't try this "personalized" crap?

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ugh. I use DDG for the privacy, because it sure as fuck isn't a good search engine.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There aren't any good search engines anymore, because there isn't a good internet anymore. SOE has buried the internet's wealth of information and centralization starved out all the spaces where information used to be. Hell half the forums that used to appear in search results aren't even online anymore, and live only in the way back machine (which doesn't come up in results).

There's so little to find anymore compared to the halcyon days of search engines we remember.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do turn to google after failing at DDG and the results are better.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly SearXNG and Brave search are fairly good. I don't think I've ever had to switch to google or some bing clone to search the internet for a very long time

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I use DDG for the privacy as well, but personally I think it works better than Google in my field (software development). The only issue I personally have with DDG is that it lags behind Google in terms of updates, I notice when searching for something that came out or happened only recently.