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It is clear that the signal to noise ratio of the WWW is getting worse. It's much harder to find good content when using a good old search engine. And if it's good it is usually hosted on Reddit or Stackexchange.

So remember, even if it's easy too Google something (well, it isn't nowadays), we want to create a fediverse of good content that helps people (I hope). So, it's always better to write a real answer if you have the time and energy. Please help boost the SNR and reverse the AI fueled information degradation loop.

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[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sadly, DuckDuckGo really sucks ass at searching the fediverse.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Lemmy+don%27t+reply+just+google+it&t=fpas&ia=web

Even if you type in the exact words of the post, it will display 1 post and that is it, then switch to other sources. Probably because of all of the different server names that aren't Lemmy.

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

On the bright side, while the top instance hit for "Lemmy" in a Google search is "lemmy.ml", the top DDG hit is "Lemmy.World". Not only does LW have ~80% of all Lemmy users but it also shows a default post sort using All rather than Local as ML does. Thus while the chief takeaway from a normie user going to ML is "wow, these guys really hate the USA/Western world" and "bUt BoTh SiDeS eQuAl ThO", the takeaway from using DDG to find LW is a much more positive experience of "Lemmy".

So if DDG searches of Lemmy are not always better than Google, they are least sometimes are.:-)