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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.

  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    7 months ago

    I use DDG but i do wonder what i dont see sometimes.
    I often google a specific brand of components at work and even with the exact brand and/or part number in the search it sometimes doesnt turn up any results (say 5-7 random unrelated webpages) and thats it. Then i put the same search in google and bam, top result.

    • Kyouki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      7 months ago

      That’s what I said - the right key wording. It’s pretty strict, whereas Google’s results sometimes are a tiny bit more loose understanding of what you roughly mean. Though not always, and on Google I found myself often just adding “Reddit” for specifics. Though really really depends on what you search.

      For me DDG offers a lot more than just search results, the bangs and features like I added a script to directly port my questions to some AI is really useful.

        • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          Quotes help. So "model" "part number" since those force them to be in the results. DDG likes to ignore parts of your query to get more results.

          • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            61·
            7 months ago

            “DDG likes to ignore parts of your query to get more results.”

            Wow sounds extremely useful and like a feature I want. I love searching for something specific and they are like “did you mean totally unrelated thing?”