Fuck everything, I'm going back to Ask Jeeves.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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DDG has the ai summary too
I fucking hate ai but ddg's ai summary is the one place I don't mind it. It doesn't open unless I click it, and I only click it when I don't actually give a shit about the correctness of something. It's great for throwaway factoids that you're curious about in the moment but won't remember or care about an hour later lol. Often saves me from wasting time going down a wikipedia rabbithole when I need to be doing something else
lite.duckduckgo.com is my default search engine. I have other more specific searches for stuff like Wikipedia and sepiasearch, and I use duckduckgo regular for shopping.
yeah idk what theyre talking about
DDG at least has a setting to disable it and I believe a separate URL if you don't wanna use an account or cookies to save the setting
Thats honestly why I use Qwant. They're from europe (France) and even tho they still rely on Bing they are working with Ecosia to build their own independent european search index
Vague... they're going to gouge their eyes out or they're going to become oedipus and fuck their own mom?
I only use ddg to watch youtube from their video search tab
There are other options, qwant, ecosia…
I use Ecosia. There's just a regular setting to turn the AI thing off. It's like 1 of 5 settings they have in total.
No they're building their own open european search index currently with Qwant
It's not just bing. It's results from bing, Google and eusp.
And DDG uses Bing and Yandex
God I love searx
I don't. It never returns relevant results. At least DDG/Bing tries to be accurate.
God I love ar
You get the ar, I will get the sex.
I use DDG just because they have !bangs and it saves me so much time.
!yt searches YouTube !imdb searches IMDb
And so on.
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Google's been getting worse, but it's not like Bing has been getting better. Maybe it's just the way I search for things, but I can never get Bing to work.
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DuckDuckGo has ai btw
I'm aware. To be clear, I use DuckDuckGo. But I think it's disingenuous to recommend it to people who are looking for a browser without ai without also warning them that you need to type in the special codephrase to remove its ai as well
You make a good point
Google doesnt let you turn it off at all unless you do -ai. Ddg, on the other hand, has a setting for disabling it completely or limiting how and when it shows up
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