Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!
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 12 hours ago
danzabia@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
ddg is great :)
Krompus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ah, I was unaware of that shortcut, thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome! 🦆
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.