As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, “11 Best Sesame Substitutes,” and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.

I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.

Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.

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    Holy shit I have never felt more seen! I thought I was going nuts or I had fucked up my algorithm or something. All search results are garbage these days unless you include Reddit. Bring back the information age of the Internet!

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      Sucks that it’s finally gotten to where it’s almost not worth using, I saw that it wasn’t the same Google when their “sponsored” ad got a friend of mine scammed outta money. Do more than usual due diligence on any ad or sponsored post on Google… Poor results with a little phishing sites on the side.

      I’ve been trying to find a search engine akin to Googles search back in 06-13 era cause the revelevant info that returned was on point most of the time.

      It’ll probably be in GPT5 but…ya…know…

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