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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 208 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (40 children)

Strange how Google became the default search engine back in the day because they were so good at filtering out the dumb websites that just spam search terms all over the page.

They've regressed and become Yahoo

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 months ago (36 children)

Except there isn't much of a Google stealing their thunder. Bing isn't better. DDG isn't better.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DDG is better, but only in the sense that Google got so bad that now it’s worse than it.

[–] sanguinet@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

I've found DDG to be adequate for the majority of things I search, but when I need something specific or with some nuance, it fails miserably. For that reason I still use Google when I do stuff for work, or when I do troubleshooting. For my daily usage DDG is just fine, though.

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