<![CDATA[My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases.]]>My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. I wonder if they'll keep Custom Search API...

What upsets and scares me is that other search engines will likely follow them.

* As per news https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

* The article says the chatbot-only flow will be used only "At times"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/359724cf-6a37-4eee-ab3e-ed419d12ed82/my-main-search-has-been-ddg-for-a-long-while-so-i-m-not-super-upset-by-the-death-of-google-search-but-it-has-been-helpful-in-some-difficult-cases.RSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 16:06:39 GMTTue, 19 May 2026 20:03:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Wed, 20 May 2026 08:34:55 GMT]]>@ZanaGB Well yes but that is how materialism works. Nothing in life is ever perfect. Even the idea of perfection is wrong because it is unachievable and easily usable to manipulate people.

Therefore: we exist on this planet in relative imperfection and embrace it while only pushing for progression, never for perfection.

So right now I'm testing multiple search engines. Startpage being pretty on point. But we will need a decentralized search engine with e.g. fedi instances sharing sites' data.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/users/haui/statuses/116605982815565310https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/users/haui/statuses/116605982815565310Wed, 20 May 2026 08:34:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Wed, 20 May 2026 08:26:42 GMT]]>@haui @nina_kali_nina well.

That leaves us with... Qwant? Ecosia? Startpage? Maybe some locally run SearXNG instances? Most of these are bing based too so ugh.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/ap/users/116182365389799001/statuses/116605950530045009https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/ap/users/116182365389799001/statuses/116605950530045009Wed, 20 May 2026 08:26:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Wed, 20 May 2026 07:40:24 GMT]]>@ZanaGB
Ddg is censoring heavily. You can test this easily. Open a handful search engines and type in different topics. Of course there will be small differences but in "certain" topics, only the state news will pop up. That is very bad.
@nina_kali_nina

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/users/haui/statuses/116605768494066208https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/users/haui/statuses/116605768494066208Wed, 20 May 2026 07:40:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Wed, 20 May 2026 05:40:22 GMT]]>@haui @nina_kali_nina

wait wait wait. They did WHAT!? What happened?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/ap/users/116182365389799001/statuses/116605296470724094https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/ap/users/116182365389799001/statuses/116605296470724094Wed, 20 May 2026 05:40:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Wed, 20 May 2026 04:43:21 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina What I wonder is who's going to pay for all that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116605072284631252https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116605072284631252Wed, 20 May 2026 04:43:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 22:45:39 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina
We are going back to webrings, I guess.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bigshoulders.city/users/wakingrufus/statuses/116603665717776069https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bigshoulders.city/users/wakingrufus/statuses/116603665717776069Tue, 19 May 2026 22:45:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 22:14:20 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina also, duckduckgo lite does not like my user agent and shows me a captcha that doesn't work.

I should look into using marginalia and other search engines more, but this just makes my life more complicated...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/users/pulkomandy/statuses/116603542595087419https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/users/pulkomandy/statuses/116603542595087419Tue, 19 May 2026 22:14:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 21:38:45 GMT]]>@haui 😞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603402660177631https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603402660177631Tue, 19 May 2026 21:38:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 21:01:43 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina *drags self to Grey Havens, discovers last ship has sailed*

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/ap/users/116159891833300151/statuses/116603257043870335https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/ap/users/116159891833300151/statuses/116603257043870335Tue, 19 May 2026 21:01:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:58:49 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina it's crazy we all allowed Google to build the definitive index of the web, and now they won't even let us see it.

I wish back when Google started showing different search results for different users people had pushed back and not put up with it. There are some resources that are so important they must be made accessible to the public without being hidden behind an algorithm, and the index of "everything on the internet" is one of them.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stiv/statuses/116603245632952654https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stiv/statuses/116603245632952654Tue, 19 May 2026 20:58:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:58:19 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina It is 2028. People look up websites by hand in a pair of directories called “What’s New” and “What’s Cool”.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/ap/users/116159891833300151/statuses/116603243709998401https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/ap/users/116159891833300151/statuses/116603243709998401Tue, 19 May 2026 20:58:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:58 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina
I've used ddg for some time until they started censoring the truth. That got me off pretty quickly.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/users/haui/statuses/116603132219899834https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/users/haui/statuses/116603132219899834Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:17:52 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina doesn't sound from that article like startpage (DDG but backed by Google's index instead of Microsoft's) would be affected

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/brendan/statuses/116603084668255921https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/brendan/statuses/116603084668255921Tue, 19 May 2026 20:17:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:13:21 GMT]]>@jamesb the screenshots hint that there might be no SERP, just chat, "at times"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603066872946707https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603066872946707Tue, 19 May 2026 20:13:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:10:18 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt oh well. interesting times indeed

searxng+ddg will get me through this, but i'm not happy about less choice, even if the results already were of dubious quality...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/d6d5fb6e-f72f-43cf-b3d3-d259979e5808https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/d6d5fb6e-f72f-43cf-b3d3-d259979e5808Tue, 19 May 2026 20:10:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:09:16 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina Oh. Not much different from now then.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk/users/jamesb/statuses/01KS0XPR08D4HDRQF89T4KHQHYhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk/users/jamesb/statuses/01KS0XPR08D4HDRQF89T4KHQHYTue, 19 May 2026 20:09:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:07:41 GMT]]>@jamesb Google search is going to be replaced by a chatbot, apparently, as per https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603044582032784https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603044582032784Tue, 19 May 2026 20:07:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:06:40 GMT]]>@domi basically: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603040606150344https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116603040606150344Tue, 19 May 2026 20:06:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:05:24 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt did they go full AI and shut down the engine, or-

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/88444121-f2a4-472d-a2bf-d48e971f61a3https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/88444121-f2a4-472d-a2bf-d48e971f61a3Tue, 19 May 2026 20:05:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My main search has been DDG for a long while, so I'm not super upset by the death* of Google Search, but it has been helpful in some difficult cases. on Tue, 19 May 2026 20:04:53 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina Oh gawd, wtf is the news now?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk/users/jamesb/statuses/01KS0XEQ96CATZ61CGB8E23K61https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk/users/jamesb/statuses/01KS0XEQ96CATZ61CGB8E23K61Tue, 19 May 2026 20:04:53 GMT