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Thats depressing. % stats like this always oversell it. There are probably not many people installing duckduckgo so a 30% increase is a small handful of users. I'd expect like 500% if there was actual pushback.
I for one don't install any search engines. I don't see a point in doing so.
That's great but...are people really downloading an app to search? Or are they talking about DDG browser?
I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have for a while. But I have noticed lately that every time I search for something, it almost always only returns product pages. I don't know if this is effective SEO or a way of DDG monetizing their search. But unfortunately I've been looking for alternatives just because it's so frustrating when searching for information to get nothing back but a bunch of sites trying to sell you their product.
Yeah I'm not a big fan of DDG either... it's powered by Bing so hardly surprising it isn't great. And Microsoft isn't any less evil than Google.
Presearch is the best I've found - just a nice, basic search - but it's a little slow and has some cryptoshit background so I'm open to alternatives. Ecosia is greenwashing bullshit afaik.
Thank you for making me discover unwall !
I never bother to disable AI in duckduckgo so I just use a search engine that doesn't have it out of the box
If you use the Voyager app, you can turn on “Always use reader mode” in the settings. It strips away the JavaScript and you won’t see those annoying messages.
It works it 95% of the articles, but there are a few that still have issues.
The amount of absolutely undue shit ddg got for innovating on par with literally every other search engine is ridiculous.
Kagi introduced the same AI search and got exactly zero shit.
I don't keep up with the drama. I use Kagi and disabled the AI. Simple as that. Does DDG make it easy to disable?
Assuming this is about duck.ai, I didn't know they got shit for it. People I've talked to generally enjoy having that option available. It's free and about as private as you can get with the current LLM chatbots, unless you self host one yourself.
At least until Confer gets off the ground. Once that happens, I'm hoping DDG switches to a similar model
DDG is not too bad, but when I click the sources from the AI search results, they often don’t contain the info from the search summary, so why even have it if it’s mostly a hallucination?
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