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Results in Duckduckgo have changed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zerozaku@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I'm searching. This is very prevalent when I'm searching for pirate sites. I'm falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.

Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?

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[–] pagenotfound@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I also noticed redoing a search sometimes yields different results despite using the exact same keywords.

[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I also noticed a change. From one day to the next I suddenly got lots of reddit links in the top results

[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

In general, I noticed that a significant degradation of search engines began to occur after the appearance of chatGPT, perhaps this is somehow related. Before that, degradation was slower. Maybe in Google for example they were a little afraid that ChatGPT would learn from their search engines and replace them...

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

feels censored to me. i wouldn't be surprised if u had poor results for torrenting websites.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. There are sites that I know the url of that dont show up in results.

[–] lemmyuser30@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

One site I've seen with this behaviour is smspool.net. No matter what you search on DDG, it won't come up.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

websearch enshittification hits me extra hard because I was always bad at searching. please keep me in your thoughts.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which search engine is good to find pirate sites and other general websites

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

They don't show up there for obvious reasons. Also sites disappear frequently, or move to new domains. You have to use alternative ways, bookmark megathreads and other collections where some other people frequently update the links, something for start:

On lemmy: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com read the sidebar
https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
On github: https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy
Some good links are here as well: https://fmhy.net/