I like ddg, but they recently stopped honoring quotation marks, and google started honoring them again.
Google search is still generally unusable, but when DDG goes into “too few hits” mode, I find myself using g! to good effect.
This is after using DDG for about a decade, and never once having g! produce better results than it.
Anyway, I’m confident that llm integrated search will make these problems 100x worse. Now, if it can’t find questionable blogspam, it’ll just start pathologically lying. Great.
Counter-anecdote - I was searching for an error message verbatim recently (can't remember if I used quotation marks or not). Google literally had zero results, but the first DDG result was the exact one I needed.
Given how fresh the DDG result was (< 48 hours, from memory), I did wonder if Google was slower in updating their index.
Google search is still generally unusable, but when DDG goes into “too few hits” mode, I find myself using g! to good effect.
This is after using DDG for about a decade, and never once having g! produce better results than it.
Anyway, I’m confident that llm integrated search will make these problems 100x worse. Now, if it can’t find questionable blogspam, it’ll just start pathologically lying. Great.