I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don’t like the idea of AI giving me “facts” since they are mostly based on other AI posts

  • zante@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    37·
    14 hours ago

    Not just you.

    DDG has deteriorated to absolute nonsense, I’ve used it for years and years.

    Recently gave startpage another go - maybe marginally better but still really poor

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      I switched to DDG right after Google added the ai answers to search and in baffled by how fast DDG seemed to go down hill. Just a few months ago it was still giving me on point results on the first try, now it almost feels like I’m using one of those malware search bars from back in the day.