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Comment by rybosworld | Hacker News Reader

It really is a shame how bad the quality of google search results has gotten. The user experience today feels adversarial.

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Well, Google's search results are still the best among its competitors. Bing's results are terrible and have a hard to understand UX. So it's not Google's results, it's the practices they use to dominate the market.

Most Bing results are actually much better today than Google's.

I don't know your use case, but nah, it's worse. It forces news snippets down your throat instead of relevant results. Plus the results page is hard to navigate, and the edge browser is the biggest alien like what the fuck is this shit kinda experience. Everything they changed in their browser just hinders your work. Microsoft long lost its mind and feels like it is commandeered by some strange AI entity. Google also is close to losing their mind altogether.

Lol. Agreed. The result weren't too bad (compared to Google) but everything else is a total nightmare. Makes you wonder if the folks building it are actually using it, or if they've already surrendered to AI and fled the place.

It depends on what you're searching for. If I'm looking for programming info, Google still seems to be much better, but for more non-technical stuff, DDG's Bing default seems better.

> Plus the results page is hard to navigate,

Are there different Bings? I double checked to make sure and without looking at the URL or logo at the top I wouldn't be able to differentiate Google results page vs Bing results page.

Virtually every time I feel like I'm not getting good results with a particular query in DuckDuckGo, I switch to Google to try it (I otherwise never use it), and 90% of the time now I get nothing better. That did not happen in the past—Google was a reliable backup plan. Now my expectations are quite low.

I have no idea about Bing because I never use it, though my understanding is DuckDuckGo uses Bing as one of its data sources.

Yeah, I have DDG by default on my phone and the only times I use Google is for business pages.

DDG is using bing as index. Though it tweaks its algorithm a bit. Using it instead of Google for this purpose is not something I'd advise. Duck duck go's goal is not to improve the search results but to make the experience more private.

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