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I've had similar issues quite a bit recently and have resorted to trying other search engines. Sadly DuckDuckGo, Bing, Wiby.me (!) and others aren't really better.

Good search was historically one of the harder unsolved problems on the web, even back in the 90s. The problem is that nowadays we treat it rather like a solved problem when in reality it's still probably one of the harder unsolved problems on the web.

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The thing for me is DDG results aren't worse either though. I'd much rather support them than Google. Very often when I use the g! modifier to redirect the results aren't much better.

It seems people have a pretty mixed experience here. I trialled DDG for several months back in 2019 but switched back to Google after I found myself using !g for almost every search.

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