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You kinda opted in for that as an Apple user.
DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source
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I get a lot of links to local businesses that have nothing to do with what I'm searching for. DDG has really dropped off in quality over the last couple of years. I'm about ready to try that paid search engine that keeps being mentioned here on HN.
I've been using Brave Search for years and it's fantastic. I haven't used Google since and it supports Bangs! like DDG. It's free so you can give it a try.
Did Brave give up on their cryptocurrency stuff?
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#24Has anyone else noticed 99% of DDG search results are now AI spam? I can't look for anything on DDG anymore, it's 100 pages of "Table of Contents" questions/answers by AI. It's like when recipe blogs took over the internet, but worse now, because I can't even get a reliable answer now.
Which searches? I find myself only using the !g for very specific, rare, within the past year framework problems and trying to find local restaurants, but Google and Yelp suck for that too but are slightly better.
DDG and Google are both open when I'm looking for stock images for flash cards.
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#25is this based on an existing engine/framework or something new?
It’s JSC + Webkit => so it’s just Safari in disguise
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source
#26Has anyone else noticed 99% of DDG search results are now AI spam? I can't look for anything on DDG anymore, it's 100 pages of "Table of Contents" questions/answers by AI. It's like when recipe blogs took over the internet, but worse now, because I can't even get a reliable answer now.
I thought DDG was a skin for bing? Maybe that's a bing issue.
I just ran half a dozen identical searches on DDG and Bing, and yeah it looks like DDG is returning the same main results as Bing (if you ignore all the AI stuff at the top of Bing searches).
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source
#27Has anyone else noticed 99% of DDG search results are now AI spam? I can't look for anything on DDG anymore, it's 100 pages of "Table of Contents" questions/answers by AI. It's like when recipe blogs took over the internet, but worse now, because I can't even get a reliable answer now.
I don't get AI spam, but I have started getting recent news articles, generally starting from ~the end of page 1 and getting more and more common as you go further down. i find they contain maybe one word from my query in the title- so it's not just pulling them out from nowhere, but come on surely it can do better than that...
I switched to a different search engine (brave) to get away from it, the result quality seems about the same for english, but not as good for other languages- it's not amazing but it'll do
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source
#28Has anyone else noticed 99% of DDG search results are now AI spam? I can't look for anything on DDG anymore, it's 100 pages of "Table of Contents" questions/answers by AI. It's like when recipe blogs took over the internet, but worse now, because I can't even get a reliable answer now.
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I've been using Brave Search for years and it's fantastic. I haven't used Google since and it supports Bangs! like DDG. It's free so you can give it a try.
Did Brave give up on their cryptocurrency stuff?
Unsure, but I don’t see anything related to it these days
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I've been using Brave Search for years and it's fantastic. I haven't used Google since and it supports Bangs! like DDG. It's free so you can give it a try.
Did Brave give up on their cryptocurrency stuff?
It's a decent alternative to what Mozilla was doing to earn money.