Is it just me or is web search getting dumber? I just tried to search for a report using DuckDuckGo, with the author's name and the full title as keywords. Instead of the text of the report, ideally from the original publisher, I got a bunch of vaguely related tech press articles. DDG are basically a front-end for Bing now, so I guess they're to blame. But I tried Monocles.de (Searx instance) and the results were only marginally better.

#WebSearch #DDG #Bing #Searx

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@strypey mojeek has their own webcrawler bot for searches, but its results tend to be hit or miss.
metager also uses bing heavily, but allows you to filter out websites; I find bing more relevant with Microsoft affiliated websites filtered out.

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> mojeek has their own webcrawler bot

Thanks for the reminder. @jackyan has pointed this out to me a couple of times. I have set it as the default in Fennec.

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