Google's AI search has come for me
  • A_AEnglish
    423·
    2 years ago

    in this situation the search engine DuckDuckGo is better than Google because it has an opt-in for a.i.
    https://duckduckgo.com/

      • chakan2English
        364·
        2 years ago

        Then Bing it is. I switched on my daily machine and DDG has been ok. Still a lot of sponsored shit I don’t need, but better than getting a solid lie from Google

        • ProxEnglish
          81·
          2 years ago

          Actually true. They hooked me in the golden era of rewards points and I’ll be damned if it isn’t way better than Google now. Bing image search is especially great. Even their copilot thing (RIP Cortana) is useful.

          • Caboose12000English
            1·
            2 years ago

            Are you pulling my leg? I’ve been using ddg for a year and the image search is the worst part by far. I can almost never find what I’m looking for without crawling back to google images.

            Regular search is OK tho

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            11·
            2 years ago

            No it isn’t. Just because most of the results come from Bing does not not mean that it is Bing. Bing is awful and DDG is useful.

            • SpaceNoodleEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Last time I ran a side-by-side test, DDG results were identical to Bing in a private browsing session.

    • TheTetrapodEnglish
      64·
      2 years ago

      I tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don’t like Google, but damned if I’m not used to it.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
        101·
        2 years ago

        If you use ddg you can redirect any search to google by adding a space ans !g to the end of the search term.

        Annoyingly, but works on the cases where google does better.