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Personally, I prefer Crusader Kings
Move over, flat-Earthers, the time has finally come for the giant Europe conspiracy theory.
Basically, Botswana and New Zealand are the only countries NOT in Europe, and in the case of the latter it's because it doesn't actually exist.
They always insist Old Zealand was replaced in the 19th Century; don't believe it people!
Nah, Old Zealand is still over there
points east to other part of Denmark
It’s actually the Dutch province of Zeeland which is notable for being otherwise completely unnotable.
Contemporary Zealand?
I prefer Original Recipe Zealand myself
Middle Zealanders rise up!
We're going to get on so many podcasts.
We're gonna be hundredaires! 🥳
If you're using the LLM generated results you need to stop. They're going away or becoming subscription services soon anyway and all we're doing now is harm.
Disclaimer: I am also guilty of this and trying to cut it out slowly.
If you're using the LLM generated results you need to stop
Don't worry, I'm not. I just keep forgetting to put in the noai part of the address
Why are you using any AI for search results? Just turn it off and use DDG as a normal search engine. Problem solved.
Why are you using any AI for search results?
Not by choice. I just can't be bothered to type in the noai address every time my ADHD brain gets a sudden thought and wants to look something up
use DDG as a normal search engine
That's what I'm already doing 🤷🏻
Problem solved.
I never said I had a problem 😁
Set the noai address as your default search engine 🤷
I've been meaning to but keep getting distracted and forgetting 😳
If you're on Firefox you can just manually add
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
as a search engine and use it from the URL bar.
Well, in my experience, at least is still better than Gemini.
I can't believe that Google of all companies in the AI space have created the most dog shit AI.
the most dog shit AI.
For you. I bet it's useful for their cash flow, not accounting the dev cost.
The fact that every single search query is fed through Gemini has made Google worse than its competitors, ergo, Dog shit.
Yeah but since they have a shitload of users already they can push whatever they want thru gemini and face zero repercussions
Their normal search is now near useless as well.
Nah, that's Google you're thinking of.
DDG isn't GOOD, but it's almost always good enough to eventually find what I need. Unlike Google, which is just ads and other useless results now.
Mmm I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree. Google's results are still better than ddg, which sources them from bing. In my experience, it is even more susceptible to SEO spam than google, even though both are pretty bad.
To me, search engines with interesting results are more stuff like marginalia and mojeek, but those are niche and not really for most people. They also have a tendency to give results that have nothing to do with the query, which is sad :(
I'm pretty sure this is because Bing is the index source for general searching: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources
Wish they’d just scrap it. Makes me want to migrate to qwant (despite disliking their lack of bang syntax). Or more accurately, I’m trying to migrate to qwant because of it, but I’ve still not converted completely.
Thanks. But they enshitified their main product enough that an opt out is worse than going to up and coming European alternatives. The future lies there for me.
To be fair, Canada is looking to "join" the EU, Turkey is already a member. What is Europe anyway?
Turkey is not an EU member and stands no chance until they get rid of Erdogan.
And both Australia and the West's favorite fascist apartheid state participate in the Eurovision Song Contest (Becau$e).
What is Europe anyway?
A Swedish band from the 80s, their big hit was The Final Countdown
Doesn't the president of Mexico have a menstrual position?
Also the president of the USA has a fecal position right?
Oh, right, neither are in Europe, my bad...
So where are all the haters who moved over to the Quack search engine because Google was forcing AI on them, now?
Still not using Google, which is still much closer to COMPLETELY useless than it is to being good.
I just disabled the AI on DDG and use it as a search engine. I don’t trust any AI to give me an accurate response.
I never liked it, and google tricks have been broken for a while. My browser came with startpage by default, seems alright for now. Thankfully I don't need a search engine that often