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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 3 points 15 hours ago

kagi still owns both of them. but there's also startpage and leta which are google wrappers if you don't want to use Google directly

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 14 hours ago

For me they are even better than Google. But I use Qwant now.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's not as good as google was when I was first allowed to use the internet 15+ years ago, but much better than today's google. Just so much more peace of mind to know that profit isn't what governs my search results.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It still kinda does, since it's Bing under the hood.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

[–] MakingWork@lemmy.ca -1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I love DDG AI

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just dont use ChatGPT but one of the other models. I find LLama to work fine.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wha... Why? Why gpt the only baddy?

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago

Well afaik they host their open source models them selves / with a cloud service they have control over so no data going to big bad tech

[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I trust DuckDuckGo. And I like they anonymize my AI queries. I feel like it’s the next best thing to running it locally.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Does their 'anonymizing queries' feat mean anything if they don't disclose how it works or what that even means literally?

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago

At least with the open source models the data is not sent to the big bad tech cooperations afaik

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

"Trust me bro"

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