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Saying other search providers are worse does not refute the statement that Google Search has been reduced in quality.

The reduction in Google Search quality is their need to be "helpful" with their desire to use my past search results, and other "big data" they gobble up about me to "improve" my specific results when in fact it makes it worse. That is just the base line, then you have the 100's of other things they have done to the search over the years for political, regulatory and other reasons.

Google search gets objectively worse every year than the previous year.




I agree that personalization is often not helpful, but I think the more important reason for Google getting worse is that the web is getting worse.


That doesn't explain why DDG returns more useful results for many development-related queries.


I get the feeling that DDG specializes in dev related content a little bit.


Is there a bang to disable personalized results?




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