Why DDG is the superior serch engine
Submitted 2 weeks ago by bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
OK, that got me smiling hard. :)
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BRBRBRBRBRBR
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Schnabeltierplaisir@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That’s obviously an AI-fake!!!1111
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They at least had the good sense to shift USC to exact metric decimal definitions.
Yuck yuck yucky. USC hurts. And RIP US-based engineers.
Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Its not a joke! It actually works!
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Does it work for football fields to real units?
I use noai.ddg and don’t get the converter thingy.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I use noai.ddg and get the converter thingy
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A football field is 100 yards, so just try “100 yards to real units” if you’re genuinely curious.
G_M0N3Y_2503@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m convinced the Imperial system is like those languages they make up for fantasy novels. I’ve only ever witnessed it in D&D and it seems impractical to learn for the day to day.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You usually don’t convert the units in the day to day. Either something is a few inches, a few feet, or a mile away. Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand (literally) if they’re doing stuff like framing.
A cup of water is quite literally a standard cup size. Any modern recipe will just be like “2 ¼ cups of milk”
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The US uses stupid measurements and makes up any excuse to keep using them
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand
This is how not to construct things.
Molvorin@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand
Why dont they use feet? 😉
Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry but cups seem to mainly be a Usian thing. As far as I’m aware most of the world uses actual metric measures, grams, ml and sometimes tbsp and tsp.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I don’t know why you’re all complaining. 1 mile = 3 muricaball fields = 24.7 Dodge™ Chargers = 2245.45 sausages = 3 fingers ( sponsored by Exxon and Pepperidge Farms).
Its very simple.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is just absurd.
1 mi =17.6 muricaball fields ~ 309 dodge chargers ~ 10560 sausages
(oh god I fucked up the math didn’t I… here it comes…)
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been told the DDG results are the same as Google, yet every time I compare they are quite different.
I’ve been using DDG since Trump’s first term, when they started manipulating COVID search results if memory serves.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DDG defaults to the Bing database, iirc. Probably that’s not all that different from Google, but I think you can preface your search with
!gto get identical results.Supercrunchy@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
if you put !g anywhere it’ll redirect you to google.com
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hah. Same.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If, like me, you don’t like to login to things, you can set your browser to use NoAI DDG by default.
Graphic drifting how to as DDG without AI as a search engine in Firefox mobile
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not fun that you have to use multiple search engines now. I mainly use Qwant and I qwant to like it but wow is it terrible.
Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Forget search engines, i feel like im going through different browsers now just to get what i want. The internet is getting so bloated cause of AI. 😑😑
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a dumpster that was once fun.
Jumi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m solely using DDG these and will it took some time to acquainted with it these days I usually always find what I’m looking for.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How can you say its superior when it wont even tell me how many washing machines are in a giraffe.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I’d like to see the X-ray of that.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Found the African
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s probably your fault for specifying what kind of giraffe.
chmod755@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Ecosia works too
lena@gregtech.eu 2 weeks ago
Now do imaginary units
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems useful for those cases you don’t know what a furlong even measures.
I wonder how well it handles ounces.
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
One spawns a pre-coded widget with obvious math equations inside, the other puts out values in a way you can’t tell if it calculated stuff or made it all up. I am sure it triggers a side-calculator too, but I can’t know if it exists, and if it was properly triggered this time after they presented the output like an answer from their Search Assist LLM tool.
This, and that you get a working multi-unit converter widget you can use again and again without asking DDG once more. I think the old way clearly wins.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It converts into another imperial weight unity, and an international volume unity…
It didn’t ask for clarification if you are dealing with precious metals…
I’m not sure any system like that can really work for ounces. But well, that’s not bad.
pemptago@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Used this all the time until I recently stubled across the cli program
unitsover_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now that’s obviously just plain incorrect. Everyone knows that real units are measured in bananas.
60 feet = 102.857 bananas
bananaforscale.info/convert/…/60-feet-to-bananas
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W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t seem to work for volume, having tried gallons and teaspoons. But it works for length and mass/weight.
EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
its not google or Microsoft. that alone makes ddg far superior.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It uses bing’s search index though…
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It uses a combination of search indexes including their own.
EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
okay. have you tried it? the index isn’t representative of the algorithm and IMHO the results are way better on ddg
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The index is one thing and how you query it is another
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yet DDG still uses AI. Better use Startpage instead. It’s like what Google used to be before they became shit and evil.
Jako302@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Most AI features were turned off by default for me and if you really want to be sure, there is always noai.duckduckgo.com you can use.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just checked out startpage having never heard of it. They want me to log in. They want me to download an app. Their video search apparently censors NSFW content even with safe search turned off. The overall search results aren’t better than any other search engine as far as I can tell. This is likely the last time I check out startpage.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Did you get the right website? Logins or apps are new to me. Search results are much better than Google or DDG. The blocking of NSFW with safe search off is also something new to me. I’ve been using it for some years now. For my work I have to use many different search engines. This one is the best one imo. Their privacy focus and EU location are also better than most.
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’ve been using it for months and never signed in or installed an app. I don’t remember it ever asking me to.
Drun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your phone keyboard also uses AI. And file search you use everyday.
Please, don’t boycott the good company just because they have a separate fancy UI for a chatbot.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s great and all, but consider the following:
If I’m standing in the middle of a field and I need to measure sixty-ish feet for a fence, and I don’t have a meter stick, I can get pretty close by walking heel-to-toe for sixty paces. There’s no equivalent method for a meter and no metric unit that has a human body equivalent, while the most imperial length units all have human body equivalents.
Also, even if I do have a meter stick, how tf am I supposed to measure and mark 0.288 of one? Sixty feet is easier to work with.
There’s also the matter of a foot being equally divisible into 2, 3, 4, or 6 equal lengths, all of which also have human body equivalents. If you know them all, and measurements relative to other objects aren’t required, you can build things that measure up relative to themselves by just using fingers, hands, feet, marks, a square, and a straight edge, no ruler or tape required. I have projects close to ten years old built that way that are still standing strong.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A yard (3 feet) is .9144 meters. Since you’re throwing accuracy out the window using heel-to-toe of different foot sizes, it’s just as accurate, and just as usable.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Pretty close? If your foot is a UK size 12 and therefore 1ft long that will work, but any variance, say 1cm, equates to 60cm / 2ft across your 60ft.
I would measure the 60ft using a lifesize printout of Johnathan Edwards 18.29m triple jump world record from 1995 which I keep handy.
Lectral@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My step length is 0.8m. After taking 25 steps, I have travelled 20m (roughly 65feet). 5 times that is 100m. 10 times that is 1km. Notice how easy those numbers are to multiply and divide. And notice how much easier it is to take regular steps than heel-to-toe steps. You know you could memorize how big your body parts are in metric too, right?
I’d argue that the only reason your preferred units are only easier for you is because you are familiar with them.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also, even if I do have a meter stick, how tf am I supposed to measure and mark 0.288 of one?
If only there was a way to calculate 0.288 of a meter. Maybe we could get a mathematician to draw up some kind of formula that’d let us cypher 29% of a meter.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have seen many, many meter sticks. Precisely zero of them did not have cm markings on them.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why are you pretending you don’t know a yard and a meter are fairly close?
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Kiloyard Yard Centiyard Milliyard
Easy fixed US Customary
No one would know 3 ceniyards would be equal to about an inch.
But see that’s one of the main problems. US goes yard-feet-inch-fraction of inch. And Meteric goes meter-centimeter-millimeter. The feet-inch type measurement disappears and those are the most common for people in everyday life.
~3 decimeters in a foot.
I feel like if the meteric system used decimeters more it would have caught on.
My door frame needs to be 36 inches or 3 ft wide. ×3 = 9 Decimeters.
But if I give a measurement in decimeters to a person that uses metric it’s like I’m using some kind of forbidden unit.
jjj@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes, but:
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
60’ is 18m.
Y’all need to learn about significant digits.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not loving the search engine but the phone browser is a life saver. I barely touch web sites on my phone, but fuck me, away from my home setup and Pihole, I want to scream.
lameda6971@libretechni.ca 2 weeks ago
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REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Random, but what’s with the Lettland toggle? I can see you’re German, why is there a toggle that basically says “Latvia”?
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
put your conversions in krunner like the foss gods intended
Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Bzw. Warum ist es auf deutsch aber auf Lettland eingestellt?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where the machine is right, it’s right.
Rezoie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I use mojeek 😢
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ok, but also
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bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
DDG is just a people pleaser. 🤷♂️
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
OP:Image
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
TIL DuckDuckGo is into BDSM.
Klear@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The duality of duck.
arudesalad@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I can tell that a student on a software engineering placement had a very fun afternoon making this
motionofethre@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
FREEDOM🏈🏈🏈