I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don’t have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn’t the appropriate sub (i know should’ve thought of that before posting )

    • @hagelslager@feddit.nl
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      55 months ago

      I have the idea DDG (or Bing which powers it) is getting worse, if you search for items, you first get a load of webstores selling that item and a Wikipedia article might show up on page 2 at best.

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        25 months ago

        They really need to prioritize Wikipedia in general, but, also, maybe I just need to make Wikipedia my homepage instead.

        • xmanmonk
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          25 months ago

          Use !w in front of your ddg search to search Wikipedia.

      • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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        25 months ago

        Yeah it’s definitely taken a sharp nosedive over the past 9 months.

        I miss dogpile siiiigh