I’m the AI skeptic in my group, but even I use it occasionally for super targeted stuff. It’s pretty good at finding errors in my excel formulas.
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OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks agoUse DDG and turn the AI off.
AI is always useless.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So Imma be real with you. I switched to DDG full time on all my devices, mostly out of security concerns and the desire to not feed the monopoly.
That said, DDG is so much worse at finding what I’m actually looking for than Google ever was. It’s a bit frustrating, I have so many reasons to like DDG, but being a good search engine isn’t one of them.
But for the record, Google isn’t great at finding what I want anymore either, and with its AI bullshit it’s likely to simply lie to me. Really, 2010 Google search is superior to modern Google search by every metric possible, that was peak web search for me.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Eh, I really haven’t missed it. Google is still there if I really need it … but chances are that if I can’t find it on DDG, I won’t find it on Google either.
dangrousperson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I know exactly what you mean, felt the same way for me. I’ve started using qwant recently and I feel like it has better results. Still not quite as good as google is at the moment and nowhere as good as google used to be, but at the rate google is enshittifying its only a matter of time until qwant is better.