Some months ago I was so disgusted with Google Search that I decided to give up Google forever!
But… after spending a month with each search engine, they all have their own problems. Like, above, I’m doing a search for who sells Devoa (a Japanese clothes brand) in New York, and none of the results from duckduckgo are relevant: Most of them have “autocorrected” my search to “devo” instead, and the one that does talk about Devoa isn’t relevant for my New York search.
Whereas Google just nails it: The first and third are shops in New York that stock Devoa, and the second is a web page at Devoa that lists those shops, too.
Duckduckgo gets is data from Bing, so it’s weird that it’s this bad, because Bing itself is slightly better (and has the correct answer, Self Edge as the fifth answer, which requires some scrolling).
So… while Google search is much worse than it used to be, I haven’t found any search engine that’s actually better than Google Search now for everyday searches. The reason I switched was that Google has pruned their search index, so if you’re searching for something really obscure, it won’t show up in their search results at all (while it will show up on Bing). But Google does shine when you’re searching for something normal, and I do a lot more normal searches than obscure ones, so…
*sigh*
I’m just using this search as an example, but it’s typical. I found that I have to go to Google explicitly so many times over these months that it’s not even funny.
So I’m back with Google search. Even if it’s horrible now, the alternatives are somehow even worse.
Yay shiny future.