DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

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• UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Somewhat ironic given that DuckDuckGo has AI on by default. You have to either save the settings on the cloud or manually turn off AI when searching using DuckDuckGo. Still a good privacy search engine though.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can have it off by default and not use a saved session if you add a custom search to the browser with noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s as the URL (or thereabouts, I’m typing from memory).

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    • UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good to know! But the out of the box version of DuckDuckGo.com does have AI on by default. I think it should be off by default.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t call it private as from my experience it uses browser fingerprinting to target users.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, it has a quick blurb on by default but actually interacting with it requires an opt in. That seems like a gold balance.

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• sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ironically, I left DuckDuckGo and switched to Kagi when DDG announced their AI.

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  • baggins@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Doesn’t Kagi use AI as well now though?

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    • other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep, the Kagi Assistant. I think you can turn it off but like DDG it’s on by default.

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  • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Performative.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It must be exhausting, going through life, being this stupid.

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• ThrowAwayAccountNo4@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No idea if it's how I have things saved but DDG is just enough AI for me. If I want AI to answer a stupid question without making me bother with shitty SEO spam, great! If I want to find a site, I can! Not costing me anything near as I can tell.

  I'm happy enough with DDG. Your use-case will vary.

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• QualifiedKitten@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But what about all the AI slop in the web results?

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  • darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It does also have the option to filter AI generated images from search results.

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    • QualifiedKitten@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t actually do all that many image searches. I’m usually searching for text based pages, and those results have also gotten super terrible, but this doesn’t seem to have any impact on that.

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Let’s mitigate AI hate by putting in more AI!”

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The AI is actually fairly useful and can be disabled.

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• Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Their AI is only useful because the quality of search results has gotten so bad.

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• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It used to be when you searched for something, it was information first, products second. If you searched bicycle, it would give you the Wikipedia page for bicycle, and then pages related to bicycles, some of which would be retailers. Now it’s the other way around, if the informational pages even show up at all.

  Forget all the AI bullshit, this is my biggest gripe with search engines today. This is why people use ChatGPT - for all its faults - to search shit that Google used to answer. ChatGPT will confidently lie to you, but it least it gives you an answer instead of trying to sell something to you.

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have to add “Wikipedia” or “stack overflow” or “reddit” to most searches

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