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Since google stopped substring matching and started picking and choosing on it's own which keywords are important and dropping the ones it doesn't like, these things are no longer really working in google search either.

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The more google tries to figure out what I want, rather than searching for what I tell it to, the worse the results get. I find quoting helps a lot

I too feel google results gave been getting worse in the past 6 years. It's hard to describe, but it feels like the internet is somehow getting smaller.

But duck duck go results are still noticeably worse, sadly.

I have the same combined experience of you two posters - DDG is worse than Google and Google is worse unless you start liberally using quotes, which I have switched to doing (and I actually would argue use of these delimiters has improved Google experience).

Yeah, definitely, trying to find actual torrent sites now amounts to adding "magnet" "btih" to your query or you get a bunch of junk spam sites filled with malware.

Yeah, that would definitely be nice. The result quality has definitely gone down noticably, well, at least until I throw quotes on everything. Used to be able to just use "+" in front of terms but of course they killed that too! Still better than duckduckgo with or without though.

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