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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now. It’s increasingly rare that I need to switch to Google.
If only Safari supported OpenSearch, or at least manually defined custom search engines. Apple's greed is getting more and more frustrating as a user. That said, I personally like Google's AI overviews. What I find much more frustrating is the "reels-like" UI the mobile page devolves into when scrolling past the first 10 or so results. I really wish there was a way to get one without the other.
I know they will basically never run out, but I like that it is happening.
You can also just add udm=14 to the Url.
If only Safari supported OpenSearch, or at least manually defined custom search engines. Apple's greed is getting more and more frustrating as a user. That said, I personally like Google's AI overviews. What I find much more frustrating is the "reels-like" UI the mobile page devolves into when scrolling past the first 10 or so results. I really wish there was a way to get one without the other.
I too prefer AI overviews, largely because I know that even if I am not using them they are burning Google's cash. I know they will basically never run out, but I like that it is happening.
You can also just add udm=14 to the Url.
- Killing google reader
- Pointless UI changes
- Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other.
- Stadia fiasco
- Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT
What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lack of coherency? Kind of feels like they have no clear vision in the "Google Ecosystem", and are hopping on the AI bandwagon with hopes it'll ride them into the future.
Alternatively, you can avoid this nonsense entirely by using DuckDuckGo, or StartPage, or Kagi, or any number of other totally competent search engines.
Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
Mistral, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all have their unique advantages and I have yet to find one LLM being superior in every task I use them for, but purely for such simple questions that should be in the training data, few are consistently as poor as Google efforts have been, first with Bard and now Gemini.