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.

  • Pechente@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    75
    ·
    edit-2
    5 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.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      5 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.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      5 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.