▲ 1435 ▼ DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search (techcrunch.com) submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 242 comments fedilink hide all child comments EDIIT : Apparently, there is an issue with the warning request to disable the ad blocker I use Fennec F-Droid and Cromite, and I don't see this issue. to get around the adblocker warning, use this link. https://unwall.app/techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (3 children) DuckDuckGo literally uses Bing for search results. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago Why should I literally care? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) What's the alternative? The basically unusable Mojeek? Rawdogging Bing? SearXNG? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They're still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand. Still, they also push AI so can use this argument: https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0 Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview: https://www.ecosia.org/settings permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago Why should I literally care? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) What's the alternative? The basically unusable Mojeek? Rawdogging Bing? SearXNG? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They're still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand. Still, they also push AI so can use this argument: https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0 Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview: https://www.ecosia.org/settings permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They're still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand. Still, they also push AI so can use this argument: https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0 Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview: https://www.ecosia.org/settings permalink fedilink source parent