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.

  • JackFrostNCola
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    7 months ago

    I use DDG but i do wonder what i dont see sometimes.
    I often google a specific brand of components at work and even with the exact brand and/or part number in the search it sometimes doesnt turn up any results (say 5-7 random unrelated webpages) and thats it. Then i put the same search in google and bam, top result.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      That’s what I said - the right key wording. It’s pretty strict, whereas Google’s results sometimes are a tiny bit more loose understanding of what you roughly mean. Though not always, and on Google I found myself often just adding “Reddit” for specifics. Though really really depends on what you search.

      For me DDG offers a lot more than just search results, the bangs and features like I added a script to directly port my questions to some AI is really useful.

      • @[email protected]
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        87 months ago

        I don’t know what “right” key wording you want if not the exact model and part number.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          Quotes help. So "model" "part number" since those force them to be in the results. DDG likes to ignore parts of your query to get more results.

          • @[email protected]
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            67 months ago

            “DDG likes to ignore parts of your query to get more results.”

            Wow sounds extremely useful and like a feature I want. I love searching for something specific and they are like “did you mean totally unrelated thing?”