Doesn’t have it off by default, and not all browsers let you set a custom search engine to direct to the “No AI” version
I still use DDG since it’s the least bad, but it’s still hypocritical for a “private” search engine to default to an AI
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OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Free, does not take your data, you can turn the ai thing on and off
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago If you don’t clear your cookies on these other browsers, tap the settings icon of search assist placed on the top right corner, and select Never.
Artisian@lemmy.world 2 months ago (Though I’ve recently been told that it uses Bing’s index, so real searches may struggle.)
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s pretty good nowadays.
kazerniel@piefed.zip 2 months ago yeah, it’s reasonably good, only struggles with more niche searches - when I search for seemingly unrelated topics it often falls back to showing ~5 generic links for one of the topics, then ~5 generic links for the other, but if I search for the same with Google &udm=14, it finds the specific niche topic I was looking for
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
And even noai.duckduckgo.com