| ▲ | verdverm 3 hours ago |
| DDG is trying to be too much like Google now, with the Ai summaries and chat bot. Actual search results are still bad. Seems to be a trend across most engines |
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| ▲ | anonova 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| DDG has an entrypoint with AI features disabled at https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ |
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| ▲ | verdverm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | how long will that last and be given effort? the direction they want to go is clear for me, similar to proton | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | No student is going to use that over the default. | | |
| ▲ | collinmcnulty 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The point is that if a school wants to use DDG but not AI, DDG is going to happily oblige them, not pull this stunt like Google. | | |
| ▲ | lokar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Years ago Google did the same thing for “safe search”, a url schools could allow. | |
| ▲ | verdverm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I turned off all Ai features, then DDG added their search summaries, despite my setting for no ai DDG pulls stunts too I'm moving to API based search options, using multiple, and rendering them as markdown for myself or my agent | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Source: you made it up. |
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| ▲ | Dwedit 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Duckduckgo's AI search feature is utterly worthless. Brave Search does a much better job (that is, if you don't mind 50+ captchas per week). |
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| ▲ | verdverm an hour ago | parent [-] | | I won't touch brave or anything the crypto ecosystem I'm using API search like EXA, the incentives feel more aligned |
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