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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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[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

I can turn off the horseshit firehose that we call AI, making it far better than google

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Ironically I find ChatGPT pretty good for certain types of searching.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

For me, its only finding stuff thats really hard to google, like concepts or meme templates.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

ChatGPT is great for when what you're looking for is the proper search term.
If I don't know what term to google, I can describe what I'm looking for and then nudge the bot in the right direction till it spits out the term.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Exactly! If I don't exactly know what I'm trying to find, its useful.

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