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Ddg:
Ran https://voteyesornoai.com/ Where of 175k people, 90% said No AI
Offers noai.duckduckgo.com, presumably to cater to this 90% who don't want it.
Has AI first features in main product. Does not advertise noai much.
So...
Just seems weird.
I would recommend it just to avoid Google getting your data, but not because it's good or anti-AI, because those aren't true.
Iirc, they explained it on techlore talks like "it"s X% of those who responded in $site, while many qactual users prefer or don't oppose it", or smth of that nature. Also, it appears far less than on google even with constant cookie clearing
Additionally, people told me that DDG is in bed with Microsoft. If that's true, I guess Ecosia is hopefully better.
I'm on ecosia, it also has AI as default, at least it's easy to turn off :/
why does a search engine that's marketed as eco-friendly use ai?
DDG is not in bed with microsoft. DDG uses Bing search index to show its search results alongside wikipedia and others they can.
Ecosia also uses Bing alongside its own search index. Except Mojeek, Qwant there are very few Independent search engines which don't use Bing or Google as its search index.
Oh, okay, whew. I wonder how SearXNG instances measure up...