DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
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Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#2I switched to duckduckgo last week and i am really loving it. I tried their browser but I was getting a lot of 'this browswer is no longer supported messages'. I think I will try brave next.
Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#3The logical business opportunity in the current LLM-boom is to create a bunch of AI-less services and products, and then charge money to access them.
Think of premium branding analogy: masses get cheap AI slop, wealthy get high quality human-curated and human-created produce. Like organic vs regular food.
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#4Since google got as bad as bing, it doesn't matter anymore and ddg is fine (afaik still the main source). This is just a plus.
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#5I switched to duckduckgo last week and i am really loving it. I tried their browser but I was getting a lot of 'this browswer is no longer supported messages'. I think I will try brave next.
I've been liking the Brave browser. The only thing I dislike is how many damn Cloudflare captcha's I have to go through all across the web. However in a way this may actually be a feature as I believe it shows that Brave's fingerprinting protections are actually effective. I didn't get these on other browsers as they were likely very easily fingerprinted.
I did have one site which told me I needed to use Chrome, Edge, or Firefox to use their site. Which kind of made me laugh considering the engine Brave uses. It was a really interactive JS heavy training site, so I guess they really wanted to be sure the browser was compatible to avoid support issues.
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#6I switched to duckduckgo last week and i am really loving it. I tried their browser but I was getting a lot of 'this browswer is no longer supported messages'. I think I will try brave next.
If you're looking for a no-AI vibe from your browser, you probably won't get it from Brave. Zen might be a better fit.
If you're just trying new browsers to see what's out there and clean, I've really liked Orion.
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#7"Wait, we're getting an influx of new users, and they actively don't want us to run the most expensive part of our search results page?"
Where can I find such accommodating customers myself?
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#8> Since then, traffic to DuckDuckGo has been booming. Last week, the company noted that web visits to its no-AI search page were up nearly 30% week-over-week, and its U.S. app installs were also up 18.1% week-over-week, with U.S. iOS app installs peaking at 69.9% week-over-week growth.
Of course there are no absolute numbers or scale. This is just an advertisement for DuckDuckGo. It's gross that previously respected tech publications run this kind of slop for clicks
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#9Anyone with experience know how DuckDuckGo compares to Kagi in terms of quality of search results?
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#10To be honest, I didn't find DuckDuckGo's AI on the top of their search to be very good anyway compared to the one Google has. However can't say I have cared much as typically if I am searching I don't want an AI response, otherwise I'd just go straight to an AI chat interface in the first place.