Are you looking for a cleaner, AI-free search experience?

[kris@mas.to]

@nixCraft https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@mjdxp @nixCraft
I switched from DuckDuckGo to Qwant. No AI & European.

I don't miss Google or DuckDuckGo (MS Bing based?)

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@wiredfire @mjdxp @nixCraft
I tried DDG AI on stuff I knew the answers to. Unlike real search it produced plausible rubbish, or possibly answers for a different question.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@tjunker @makeithappen5634 @nixCraft
I tried Ecosia (before they had AI) and thought Qwant was a little better.

I wonder what AltaVista would be like if DEC had survived and Google never existed? Intel got their ARM stuff and resold most to Marvell.

Why no boolean operators? Amazon is worst as there is no way I know to stop them doing a fuzzy search on each word separately and adding irrelevant sponsored results. Easier to find items on Amazon via Qwant!

[makeithappen5634@privacysafe.social]

@esanchis @tjunker @nixCraft have you even tough or are you just stpiting their lie back ?

They cannot do that with their own index ?

They lie to hide the fact they prefer to sell you to microsoft.

Don't you remember they did not block microsoft tracker some time ago ?

[schtaks@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft I've been going to mojeek more and more... Microsoft is hiding simple results from DDG. DDG feels like windows search sometimes.

[bedifferent@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft And for those fast typers who don't want other things to drain our thinking, just use settings and turn off AI and search assist etc.

Before you decide to download it, check to ensure it doesn't mess up your system. I'm never trusting the download again.

[makeithappen5634@privacysafe.social]

@raymaccarthy @tjunker @nixCraft yeah onestly i did not understand why they did not all build their engine around presearch / yacy / and the european index.

a decentralized one would bing many hobyinst that would add their server as scanning bot, that could even become bigger than google's one.

edit: and of course since i'm for sovereinty any country could 'just' join.

but no they all want their own to sell it after because money.

money ruin every tech.

[kajer@infosec.exchange]

@schtaks @nixCraft

DDG is Bing based. The more you know.

[wiredfire@mstdn.social]

@raymaccarthy @mjdxp @nixCraft It’s still just chatgpt or mistral or Claude etc depending on the model you chose. But my point is if someone’s going to use AI they’re better off using DDG’s gateway than going direct.

It’s still drivel, of course, but choice remains a good thing and giving people a route to play with LLMs without signing their digital life away isn’t a terrible idea.

[raulmv93@tkz.one]

@nixCraft Waterfox is better

[ef@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@nixCraft noai DDG rewrites links to noai DDG ones for "reasons unknown".

[aimeemaroux@mastodon.social]

@raymaccarthy @mjdxp @nixCraft Really? I have Quant as my default search because afaik they are the only ones with their own engine, but it seems they introduced AI results recently. I can turn them off but Quant "forgets" my settings every once in a while, so it is really annoying.