The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.

      • @HawkeEnglish
        -5•6 months ago

        DDG is shit.

        Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

          • @HawkeEnglish
            1•6 months ago

            Effective search results.

            Two recent examples:

            • searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
            • searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.
            • @accideathEnglish
              4•6 months ago

              The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.

    • @[email protected]English
      14•6 months ago

      google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing

    • @RestrictedAccountEnglish
      14•6 months ago

      I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results

    • @JeffreyOrangeEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?