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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Better.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, the results are still consistently much worse imo (excluding sponsored results from Google), and I use DDG daily

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's my primary but Google unfortunately is often a fallback. And Google is tracking the shit out of us these days. Certain obscure searches don't work well on DDG, sad to say.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I love DDG AI

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

I use Kagi, I really like how it's AI answer gives sources for statements.

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