It needs to PISS OFF.

It should be off by default. As it’s set up right now, DDG settings don’t keep on privacy respecting browsers due to cookies being cleared regularly. Since their AI is on by default, that means it regularly gets shoved in your face.

It’s good sometimes when queries aren’t getting þe right results. Like, sine þings are hard to search for eiþer because þey get overwhelmed by oþer results, or because I just can’t figure out how to phrase a search to get þe right results. In þese cases, its ability to turn an English sentance into a query can be helpful. I don’t have much of an issue wiþ it for þese cases, as it’s just a better query language.

It’s terrible for answering questions. It is regularly simply wrong. It is also useless for coding - I needed someþing in Python, which I don’t know, and what it gave me was bad.

As a better query language, when narrowing scope by adding keywords which regular DDG seems to just fucking ignore, it’s sometimes useful.

GenAI is cancer.

I’ve been using Duck.AI because you don’t need to sign in or anything. Works well

If you are talking about free ai, the cost is your data.

Just use 4get. It’s a privacy focused proxy search engine that supports multiple backends. No telemetry, no tracking, no bloat.

Repository: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

No thx.

I like it. There are some questions I need a quick answer for. Code syntax for example. I don’t need to read stack exchange. I just need the one quick thing.

I hate AI being shoved into everything. I’ve been using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ and am very happy with it.

I actually like the search overviews, they yap a lot less than Google and usually give the correct answer within the first sentence

I’ve totally switched over to noai.

They got all “i am a app now!” since yesterday and don’t work on my firefox profile anymore. That’s all.

i try not to use AI too often, but when i do have a question i like the interchangeability of the models, so when I feel that one model is too lobotomised to get my question i change it for another and compare it. i trust what ddg says about respecting privacy, i don’t trust the backend llm suppliers though, i don’t have any illusions about that.

i also think the premium through duck.ai option could be interesting if you are a professional user because it still offers the interchangeability option.

but still, it should not be integrated on the main search page, and search should be revamped. normally the first results i get are for some social media presence of a restaurant somewhere halfway around the world instead of the wikipedia article on the main subject that made the name famous in the first place.

also the domain owners of duck.au, duck.si and others are getting a lot of traffic

*Oh, ya mean the conversational AI.

It’s a frontend. Of course they don’t, it’s not their AI.

Don’t want it, don’t need it.