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
Nah, the results are still consistently much worse imo (excluding sponsored results from Google), and I use DDG daily
I use Yandex for finding pirated or otherwise censored content.
What do people use google scholar for? Use jstor and other specific databases like arxiv
DuckDuckGo AKA Bing is complete dog doo. When you are looking for news it only tries to shove in the Microsoft MSN news page. The algorithm manipulation in favor of Western MSM bias is even heavier than Google. When you search certain terms it refuses to show articles containing those exact terms.
+1, it’s hot garbage and I don’t know why anyone would use it. You’re better off trying to randomly guess the URL of the content your looking for because that’s probably more likely to find it.
Yeah saying “DDG is as good as Google” means saying that DDG is worthless garbage lol
I also use Qwant but it’s noticeably slower for me. Do you find the same?
I switched to it a couple of years ago, with the expectation that I had to resort to google in more complex search instances. But very soon I found out that ddg did the job, and my “alternative” google searches did not turn up anything better, quite the contrary in fact, and I haven’t been back since.
I can turn off the horseshit firehose that we call AI, making it far better than google
Ironically I find ChatGPT pretty good for certain types of searching.
For me, its only finding stuff thats really hard to google, like concepts or meme templates.
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.Exactly! If I don’t exactly know what I’m trying to find, its useful.
I use Kagi, I really like how it’s AI answer gives sources for statements.
That’s a low bar, google sucks now
For me they are even better than Google. But I use Qwant now.
I use QWANT but I have the same feeling tbh. Or maybe Google search has been worsening I’m not too sure…
I love DDG AI
Just dont use ChatGPT but one of the other models. I find LLama to work fine.
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
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.
At least with the open source models the data is not sent to the big bad tech cooperations afaik
ddg maps is just a no-frills apple maps.
which is to say: terrible
Agreed. Even if it were identical to Google maps in terms of content, it runs slower on all platforms I’ve so far tried (windows, iOS, OSX).
yes, it is. but between it and graphhopper (or osm), it’s “enough” for me.
i don’t need a feature-filled “app” (my phone is ‘dumb’), and the only time i end up on something else like bing or google maps is if a site i need to use embeds and relies upon them.
my problem with apple maps is how frequently it has something’s location completely wrong because osm addresses use the European addressing system everywhere when i don’t live in europe
United States format is very different from the european format and often the apple maps algorithm makes some boneheaded assuptions to translate from a US address to something OSM understands. i contribute, too, but the next time i have an example of apple maps fucking up… i’ll have already forgot this convo happened, but i’ll try
DDG is just Bing
Sorta not really.
I got identical results with a side-by-side comparison.
the bulk of its search results come from bing. only its instant answers and ai features aren’t bing
I’ve had to use !g way too much lately, so no.
Bangs, used to move the search to another site, in this case google
