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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
    2241·
    1 year 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.

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      It has a partnership with bing. So sadly now it is mostly a bing clone. I have been using DDG for a decade. I noticed a distinct drop in search quality after the bing partnership.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      If I’m looking up something general, like some actor or tv show, then DDG is perfect. If im troubleshooting some weird software issue then i find it doesnt always list as many results, as if it hasnt indexed as many sites.

      DDG at least now means I can search random shit without it suddenly being inserted into my social media algorithms like some kind of psychological torture.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      Oh my god the Fandom wiki for minecraft uses the same little tab icon as the actual minecraft wiki but it has a fucking “are you an adult or child” popup EVERY SINGLE TIME a page loads

      I hate it so much

    • rf_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      What are better alternatives to fandom? I see the incumbents name get repeated more often than the alternative unfortunately.

      • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        The problem is that fandom tends to vacuum up and supersede the smaller wikis, and the SEO bullshit just makes it happen even faster. The answer to your question unfortunately is “it depends on the game/show/fandom”.

    • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

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

      • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        That seems like a bug assuming you have your region selected/enabled? I’d report it to DDG.

        • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know why they would need my location/region. They’re already trying too hard to advertise stuff to me. Isn’t the internet like, international? Other search engines I never get that Ebay/Amazon stuff, it’s a DDG feature for whatever IP I get.