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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@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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[-] MakingWork@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I love DDG AI

[-] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

Just dont use ChatGPT but one of the other models. I find LLama to work fine.

[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Wha... Why? Why gpt the only baddy?

[-] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

Well afaik they host their open source models them selves / with a cloud service they have control over so no data going to big bad tech

[-] Fiction@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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.

[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 1 day ago

"Trust me bro"

[-] boreal@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Better usually in my experience. Google is mostly SEO-sludge anyway. Though sometimes when you need something very specific Google is better but that gap has been pretty much closed during 7+ years I’ve used DDG.

[-] breadguy@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day 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

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

[-] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

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

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