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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

  • frankgrimeszz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    In my recent experience, it recommends shitty blogs loaded with adverts and keywords. Most annoyingly, it always recommends Fandom’s Wiki above better alternative wiki sites. My DuckDuckGo experience has surprisingly been more useful.

    That aside, my Brother laser printer is still working great. No complaints.

    • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      DDG tries very hard to push Amazon and Ebay to me. They’re not even available in my country 😅

    • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      My DuckDuckGo experience has surprisingly been more useful.

      Yeah, right!? I remember that one or two years ago DDG was consistently worse than Google but recently Google’s quality has dropped off a cliff. Now when I don’t get the desired result in DDG and switch to Google, the results are usually just as bad or worse.

      • smort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        The only time google gets me better results than DDG now is if I have a really vague question, like “movie where the guy wears a trash bag on his leg and has a piña colada on the train to Milwaukee”

          • ignism@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Could you elaborate? You’re saying you’re going to google for programming issues, but at the same time devs don’t do SEO?

            • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Sure. What I mean is that when I search for issues in duck duck go, I don’t see relevant results. But then I put “!g” and what I want (usually stack overflow or GitHub) comes to the top.

              So it makes sense that programming sites do tags and keywords properly to optimize things for the user instead of trying promote their site no matter what.

              At least that’s my guess anyway.

              • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                7 months ago

                Stack overflow has been one of the consistently reliable googleable sites for decades.

                It’s a shame Quora has strayed so far from their initial cloning of SO’s site. It seems to be turning into AskYahoo 2 fast from the results I’ve seen lately.