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.

  • Kyouki@lemmy.world
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    6 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.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        6 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.

        • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 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?”