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Can't say I'm ever surprised to see another "WTF Google" post. The search has degraded a lot over the years.

With that said, I've tried to switch on more than one occasion and Bing might be the only alternative that worked for me. DuckDuckGo is always way off the mark, no matter how many chances I've given it over the years. Google still wins, even with the ads and spammy stuff.

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This is entirely anecdotal but recently many top results in DDG read like they’re written by GPT-3 or the like. Half coherent sprawls of text that contain lots of random factoids but nothing novel or that actually answers the question.

No, this is just how most bloggers talk. /s

Some people here a few days ago recommended kagi, a paid service with a limited free option. I have been trying it and so far the results seem great!

Kagi has been amazing: verbatim mode that actually works, blocking sites you don't want to see, boosting sites you always want to prioritize, and lists of sites you can customize for specific searches.

Based off your recommendation and others, and looking at the site and it’s features, I am going to sign up for a month and give it a real try. I’ve been using google since the beginning and it feels time for a change.

I've switched. It's great at least for devs.

Brave Search has done it for me

I am surprised by how well it works. Makes me wonder if they do use Google or Bing indexes after all.

I've been using it, and it's not bad, but I do fall back on Google fairly often.

I thought DDG was mostly bing results at this point?

Kagi has been great for me

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