• @[email protected]
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      Google doesn’t even treat the quotes as a requirement anymore, just as a suggestion.

      I was searching for something the other day, such as ‘blah blah text’. Google asked if I wanted results that must contain ‘text’ so I clicked on it and it changed to ‘blah blah “text”’.

      The results were exactly the same. Except now the suggestion asked if the results must contain “text”. So I blocked that. And now the search was for ‘blah blah ““text””’

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        Google search is so shit now. Yes I know the add “Reddit” hack and I’m pragmatic about that. But are there any real search alternatives yet?

        You’d think a proper non gamed search engine would know that a Reddit result is better than an SEO spam blog.

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          I use a privacy search engine called start page which scrapes the results From google, ecosia is great too, while it isn’t as privacy focused it is still pricacy friendly and it plants trees as you use it