Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I’ll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you’re careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It’s useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

This article on Ars (and if you’re not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

  •  exx   ( @exx@beehaw.org ) 
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    2 years ago

    I mostly use DDG (the stack overflow integration instant answer is glorious), but lately I’ve been moving a lot of my search queries to ChatGPT w/ the browsing mode or a plugin (the VoxScript plugin is amazing for general queries and summarizing YouTube reviews)- it’s not perfect and for some reason is incapable of visiting a fair number of websites, but it does work surprisingly well for specific things.