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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

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.

  • frankgrimeszz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    277·
    6 months ago

    In my recent experience, it recommends shitty blogs loaded with adverts and keywords. Most annoyingly, it always recommends Fandom’s Wiki above better alternative wiki sites. My DuckDuckGo experience has surprisingly been more useful.

    That aside, my Brother laser printer is still working great. No complaints.

    • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
      75·
      6 months ago

      My DuckDuckGo experience has surprisingly been more useful.

      Yeah, right!? I remember that one or two years ago DDG was consistently worse than Google but recently Google’s quality has dropped off a cliff. Now when I don’t get the desired result in DDG and switch to Google, the results are usually just as bad or worse.

      • smort@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        6 months ago

        The only time google gets me better results than DDG now is if I have a really vague question, like “movie where the guy wears a trash bag on his leg and has a piña colada on the train to Milwaukee”

      • Opisek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yup. I constantly found myself appending !g for important queries that I needed an answer for right then and now. Google has stopped providing that commodity. It’s almost never worth it anymore to fall back to Google.

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      It has a partnership with bing. So sadly now it is mostly a bing clone. I have been using DDG for a decade. I noticed a distinct drop in search quality after the bing partnership.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      If I’m looking up something general, like some actor or tv show, then DDG is perfect. If im troubleshooting some weird software issue then i find it doesnt always list as many results, as if it hasnt indexed as many sites.

      DDG at least now means I can search random shit without it suddenly being inserted into my social media algorithms like some kind of psychological torture.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      Oh my god the Fandom wiki for minecraft uses the same little tab icon as the actual minecraft wiki but it has a fucking “are you an adult or child” popup EVERY SINGLE TIME a page loads

      I hate it so much

    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Use breezewiki extension. Redirects fandom articles to a frontend that removes their bullshit and replaces fandom with independant wikis when possible.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      If you have any tips or tricks for DDG please do share! I’m definitely getting better overall results there, but the local ones can still be a bit rough.

      • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I found that Qwant gives decent results in my native non English language, results similar in quality to Google, but way better than DDG which often just gives English results.

    • rf_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      What are better alternatives to fandom? I see the incumbents name get repeated more often than the alternative unfortunately.

      • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        The problem is that fandom tends to vacuum up and supersede the smaller wikis, and the SEO bullshit just makes it happen even faster. The answer to your question unfortunately is “it depends on the game/show/fandom”.

    • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      DDG tries very hard to push Amazon and Ebay to me. They’re not even available in my country 😅

        • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I don’t know why they would need my location/region. They’re already trying too hard to advertise stuff to me. Isn’t the internet like, international? Other search engines I never get that Ebay/Amazon stuff, it’s a DDG feature for whatever IP I get.