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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] 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

"Trust me bro"

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