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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use DuckDuckGo, you can configure it as your default search engine in Firefox.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find myself hitting the same issues with ddg as with Google. The 1st page trys to sell me the thing I want info on

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

You can turn sponsor off in setting or use start.duckduckgo.com

I find their ad is much more clearly marked than google.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use DDG when coding and generally find it to be a bit nicer, but from the article it sounds like they're prone to the same issues. Anecdotally, I have noticed non-code queries do seem to be similarly crap

ETA: You can set it as default in Chrome too, under Settings -> Search Engine

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've turned to devdocs.io for my API documentation needs, which saves me the step of searching at all.