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Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  !g to pipe to Google if you must, I rarely need to.
  
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  - Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personally when I use it, unless it’s something trivial, I always end up doing exactly that.
    
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astutemural@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!

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- danzabia@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  ddg is great :)
  
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- Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah, I was unaware of that shortcut, thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome! 🦆
  
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