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
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.
Nah, the results are still consistently much worse imo (excluding sponsored results from Google), and I use DDG daily
That’s a low bar, google sucks now
I love DDG AI
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
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
DDG does the job. Hopefully, I won’t have to switch engines soon.
Wait 'til you learn that DDG’s engine is Bing
I really tried, I set duckduckgo as the default for my second browser (I use it a lot) to slowly get used to it, but every time results are so bad I get mad and switch to Google especially for images
I use Kagi, I really like how it’s AI answer gives sources for statements.
Have been using it for 8 years now. I never felt the need to switch back honestly. Only Google thing I really love is Maps and that’s it.
Gnome Maps is honestly really good!
Not everything has to be inside your browser.
Google kind of went downhill
Kind of? It went Paul Rudd in Mac and Me.
isn’t it just a bing wrapper?
Yup.
No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.
Last time I checked, it matched Bing results exactly.
Yahoo is Bing too
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
I’ve switched away from DDG after many years of use. I have gone to Ghostery Private search. It seems to be better for my search results with a lot less garbage mixed in.
Yes, mostly, except that programming related searches have really gone downhill in DDG for me.
