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... DDG had .7% marketshare ( https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share ). 28% more visits would take it to .84%. Assuming those all come from Google, that would mean .16% of Google users didn't love AI mode enough to switch. Classic example of misleading with stats.
The flip side is that multiple AI Search engines have overtaken and lapped DuckDuckGo many many times over in the past year or so.
Duckduckgo.com has a AI advisor too. I know not of Google's, I really do not give a soft hoot. The DDG one is good, useful
Important context: In terms of total share of search a 28% lift for DuckDuckGo rounds down to zero. The flip side is that multiple AI Search engines have overtaken and lapped DuckDuckGo many many times over in the past year or so.
Google has ~90% of search where DuckDuckGo has A ~30% jump of DuckDuckGo is about 0.3% of global search traffic, basically a rounding error for google. Still, it's an interesting signal, but not nearly enough to worry Google. If the jump had been 300% that would merit some thought.
0.3% is definitely not a ”rounding error”. For Google it would mean roughly $650M drop in revenue.
- Search ad pricing is inelastic and auction based (supply goes down price goes up).
- A jump in traffic to DuckDuckGo does not mean Google is experiencing a decline in search volume. Number of queries per session has increased since launching AI Overviews.
Important context: In terms of total share of search a 28% lift for DuckDuckGo rounds down to zero. The flip side is that multiple AI Search engines have overtaken and lapped DuckDuckGo many many times over in the past year or so.
And its 28% on the noai.duckduckgo.com domain, not in total. So it's even smaller.
I like the AI mode, but only because Google intentionally destroyed their search engine. There wasn't any real competition back then, but now everyone has access to AI. They're frantically trying to keep their search engine customers. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Feels like google is purposely downgrading non-AI search results
My friends who previously had no interest in technology and never talked about it, are suddenly following tech news closely all because they hate AI being pushed so hard. One was just messaging me this morning about alternatives to Google search and maps. He ended up downloading DuckDuckGo. If Google isn’t carefully they’re going to push people away from their golden goose.
Search is not the golden goose. Ads are. If search was the golden goose, they wouldn't be trying so hard to replace it with AI. Just because Google used to do search as their main point of business does not mean that holds true today. Holding on to the false premise will only add to your confusion about their decisions.
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I've yet to meet anyone outside that likes AI except for manager or when people are pretending for their bosses at work. It became a survival tactic.
Every single software engineer I know uses it pretty heavily.