Google has been on a steady downward trend for several years now, to the point where it's getting nearly unusable.
It still works relatively well in English, but have you tried searching in other languages?? It's hot garbage. Google does not know the difference between Japanese and Chinese even in 2023.
I haven’t used it as my main search engine in years. VERY rarely I escape hatch to google search for weird queries. That used to sometimes work, now it never seems to work (or my queries have gotten more niche over time hah)
I've been using it less because I constantly get challenged with captchas when trying to use it with my VPN. I like DDG's privacy, but I'm not fond of it as a search engine. I heard good things about Brave search. I've been using their browser for about a year, so I may as well give their search engine a try.
I’ve been trying a few different alternatives namely Qwant and Startpage. I find Qwant to be the quickest of those two and have been using it most often. Trying to get away from the google ecosystem as much as possible, searches are getting bogged down even with an adblocker.
My primary search engine is rarely Big G. More often than not, if I can't find what I'm looking for by SERP 4 on DDG(Bing), I'll figure out what the missing keyword was, and edit the query. I've also been using Brave search some, but their connection to crypto bugs me enough that I don't want to rely on them.
If I really do need Google, I use Millionshort, with the full million excluded.
I'm part of a health study in the UK that recently did a poo study as well. I didn't take part, but this week we got the results. So now I know what areas of the country have the most and least frequent pooing. There are also stats on constipation and diarrhea, and length of time sitting on the toilet. I'm happy to copy and paste if anyone is interested.... though given the post title, maybe I'll keep it to myself, lol.
This is odd. I did exactly what you describe to several instances and get no content from them. For feddit.de i blocked individual magazines because they have some English language ones that I want to see.
Super odd. I have some 3-4 domains blocked atm, one of them grossly prolific with an emphasis on gross, and I've never seen anything from them since. Otherwise, I would have caught on, mentioned it's broken, and stopped bothering
And feddit is showing up in your blocked domains section in settings now? I haven't been blocking many domains, but I've had no problems with people and magazines going away.
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