You know what I was thinking about the big summary at the top and completely forgot about the summaries in the result descriptions. But I’m not sure if that’s DDG doing it, Bing (who they use as a backend), or the sites itself since I only see it on results from reddit and such.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for over a decade, the results are fine, and !bangs are extremely useful for piping queries directly to specific sites, !w for wikipedia !aw for archwiki etc. The Duck.ai function is a recent addition, and can be easily disabled if you don’t want it. By default it doesn’t usually pop up by itself. You can also use lite.duckduckgo.com for a much leaner search and absolutely no AI.
I was trying to use it for a long time, but the results are never fine for me. The situation when I search for something specific, the duck shows me nothing, and the google shows me exactly what I need is far too often for me to completely switch.
Granted, I don’t keep cookies, I use all the adblocks possible, and I disabled google’s LLM bullshit, otherwise google is borderline unusable.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, it’s not better and also shows slop
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
You can at least turn off its built-in summaries. But some filtering to detect AI generated articles would be nice.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
You can ask it to turn off the summaries. It still shows them but you can ask.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
You know what I was thinking about the big summary at the top and completely forgot about the summaries in the result descriptions. But I’m not sure if that’s DDG doing it, Bing (who they use as a backend), or the sites itself since I only see it on results from reddit and such.
Krompus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for over a decade, the results are fine, and !bangs are extremely useful for piping queries directly to specific sites, !w for wikipedia !aw for archwiki etc. The Duck.ai function is a recent addition, and can be easily disabled if you don’t want it. By default it doesn’t usually pop up by itself. You can also use lite.duckduckgo.com for a much leaner search and absolutely no AI.
astutemural@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!
Krompus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, I was unaware of that shortcut, thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome! 🦆
danzabia@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
ddg is great :)
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was trying to use it for a long time, but the results are never fine for me. The situation when I search for something specific, the duck shows me nothing, and the google shows me exactly what I need is far too often for me to completely switch.
Granted, I don’t keep cookies, I use all the adblocks possible, and I disabled google’s LLM bullshit, otherwise google is borderline unusable.
Krompus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
!g to pipe to Google if you must, I rarely need to.