Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath

A_A@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  DDG is just Bing

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  • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then Bing it is. I switched on my daily machine and DDG has been ok. Still a lot of sponsored shit I don’t need, but better than getting a solid lie from Google

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    • GregorTacTac@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can disable the sponsored results in the settings of DDG.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Therefore bing > google

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    • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Actually true. They hooked me in the golden era of rewards points and I’ll be damned if it isn’t way better than Google now. Bing image search is especially great. Even their copilot thing (RIP Cortana) is useful.

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      • Caboose12000@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you pulling my leg? I’ve been using ddg for a year and the image search is the worst part by far. I can almost never find what I’m looking for without crawling back to google images.

        Regular search is OK tho

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is better Bing

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s Bing in a private browsing window.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it isn’t. Just because most of the results come from Bing does not not mean that it is Bing. Bing is awful and DDG is useful.

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• TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don’t like Google, but damned if I’m not used to it.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you use ddg you can redirect any search to google by adding a space abs !g to the end of the search term.

    Annoyingly, but works on the cases where google does better.

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    • PhatInferno@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love ddg’s bangs for me who mainly uses it for media its so nice being able to !yt whatever i want to search for, vs going to the site and doing it

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    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lots of other places too (13.5k of them), they’re called ‘!bangs’. !w Wikipedia !r spezit etc.

      Full list here duckduckgo.com/bangs

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