Some Blog Site

For a recent blog post, I knew I had written about “raising awareness” a while back and wanted to reference that. Not having all my blog post dates memorized, I turned to a search engine for help.

Many years ago, when I setup Some Blog Site, I added a search feature that uses Google to provide results. So I started with that. I looked up “awareness” on the site and did not get the page I knew existed.

Then I switched to Duck Duck Go and it gave me the page I wanted as the first result. Just for fun, I tried Bing, and Bing was also helpful.

I rarely use Google anymore, because my recent experiences with it are not good. If it won’t find things I know exist and am looking specifically for, how can I trust that it will give me the right results for something I don’t know as much about?

Note that I didn’t grab the Google screenshot before the latest post, so originally it didn’t have the first four results, which are the one I just made and not the one I was looking for.

Here are Duck Duck Go and Bing:

It seems Google prioritizes recent results and just kind of forgets about older results, not even bothering to mention they exist.

For fun, I thought I’d try one more check, with the keyword “helmet”.

Here are Duck Duck Go and Bing:

Anyway, I normally use DuckDuckGo now, because it gives better results and because I can turn off any AI responses.