Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic

• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Use the DDG bang :

  1. Go to https://duchduckgo.com
  2. Enter !w <your-search-here>
  3. It searches Wikipedia specifically for <your-search>

  There are bangs for “image search” (!im), “github search” (!gh), “search PubMed” (!pm)

  You cannot live without this

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would I need any of that if I can bang the search bar of my browser instead, and it takes me straight to search on Wikipedia or any other site I want without waiting for DDG to add that site?

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    • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Relieved to find this response below the others. Why TF would you search for a site i) whose URL you know? ii) waste space on your browser by adding the website as a search bar on your browser’s menu bar? How much time do people anticipate they’ll save by avoiding typing Wikipedia.org into the address field?

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not what I mean. I have a keyword like ‘wik’ set to take me to Wikipedia’s search, and if I type ‘wik black pus’, i get the page for that term.

        I also have an extension that shows a popup with buttons for different search engines whenever I select text on a page, and I have a similar thing on the phone for text shared from any app. Each of these methods has about twenty-seven sites configured in it. Considering that I look up things on these sites easily a dozen times a day, it’s ridiculous to say that this doesn’t save me time over opening each site.

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    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      if that’s working, it means your browser search bar is configured to route thru DDG

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not how any of this works. The browser has its own list of search engines. Seriously, look in the settings sometimes.

        Firefox even has two separate mechanisms for this, the second is via bookmarks with keywords.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can completely skip DDG’s systems by just using your search bar though.

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know I speak for everyone on Lemmy that they prefer entering their question into Grok.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We can probably live without Bing

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