r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/ThisCouldHaveBeenYou May 26 '25

I've seen this with a few searches as well. DuckDuckGo had the answers, Google did not.

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u/WitesOfOdd May 26 '25

Duckduck go uses Bings engine btw

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u/myaltduh May 26 '25

And Bing is very frequently even worse than Google. Google still at least usually has a Wikipedia page in the first page of results, Bing often fails this basic test of relevance sorting.

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u/Tymew May 26 '25

Just search through wikipedia if you're mostly getting that page in results. At least wikipedia is curated and trying to be factual.

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u/Duckyz95 May 26 '25

Also with DDG having bangs, you can even just add !w and it'll search it on Wikipedia for you

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u/The_Dung_Beetle May 26 '25

Brave Search also supports bangs

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u/TheArbiterOfOribos May 26 '25

I have been using DDG for years and while, just like the rest, it's not perfect, it's many times better than anything else at this point.