I hope they use DuckDB
DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
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Re: DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
#372Ai is free now, how cool. Now we make an agent that uses google search ai in playwright.
Re: DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ads in Search make up a significant percentage of their revenue. It is also the gateway that gets people into the Google ecosystem. Ads make the money, but Search is still the consumer facing product that brings people to Google and keeps them there. It’s so ubiquitous people don’t even think about it or notice it anymore. I’m always surprised by how much people are still searching for stuff as we’ve moved from the o…
> but Search is still the consumer facing product that brings people to Google and keeps them there. And let's not forget, these are the same people that when searching for "eBay" will put an ad at the top of the results, linking to eBay, and then place eBay as the top search result. I've found it hilarious that every single search engine does the same thing. You can do it even in Apple's App Store too. (Not seeing t…
Not sure this is better, but if they don’t pay, most of the first page will instead point to random unrelated competitors and the search result will become visually harder to find. It is basically legalized mafia tactics (“you’ve got a nice business, shame if something were to happen to it if you don’t pay up”) since supposedly you could pay someone else to SEO the site and achieve the same result without just buying ads
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#374Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would anyone go to google anymore tho? If it doesn't furnish results it's just a chatbot
I would assume that they've A/B-tested any such important change extensively and basically know that it won't affect their numbers for the worse.
Given my own time at google, I highly doubt these a/b tests are constructed to actually yield a better product rather than push pet products
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#375We have all overused a single solution to "finding stuff on the web": the search engine. Now it's dying, killed by AI and by Google's greed.
There's no alternative left, no webrings, no web directories. If all your content is now only on your server, you're invisible.
Re: DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
#376My 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.
> The AI product rollouts in the last two years have been some of the most aggressive and user hostile product rollouts in my entire life. I’m getting extremely annoyed by the Base44 ads I see on YouTube every other video. First I pressed skip all the time, but the ads keep popping up. So now, every time I see it, I click on the ad and then immediately close the site. At least I can make their aggressive ad strategy…
Its probably why you keep seeing them a click is marked as interest and clicking away doesnt cost anything they refund it.
Re: DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ads in Search make up a significant percentage of their revenue. It is also the gateway that gets people into the Google ecosystem. Ads make the money, but Search is still the consumer facing product that brings people to Google and keeps them there. It’s so ubiquitous people don’t even think about it or notice it anymore. I’m always surprised by how much people are still searching for stuff as we’ve moved from the o…
> but Search is still the consumer facing product that brings people to Google and keeps them there. And let's not forget, these are the same people that when searching for "eBay" will put an ad at the top of the results, linking to eBay, and then place eBay as the top search result. I've found it hilarious that every single search engine does the same thing. You can do it even in Apple's App Store too. (Not seeing t…
It’s basically a guaranteed way to get your term into the first rank.
When people run a simple keyword search without intending to visit the site itself, for example when eBay is caught in a scandal and you’re curious, you type “eBay” expecting a news link somewhere on the first page.
That and mafia-esque protection money basically
Re: DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
#378My 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.
> AI being pushed so hard.
What I see is people using AI of their own free will, because it's incredibly useful.
It's true that inside tech companies, AI is being pushed into products, but outside of those companies, normal people are rapidly adopting AI for all sorts of daily uses.
"I don't know what this symbol on my dishwasher means." -> Ask AI.
"Why is my bread not rising properly?" -> Ask AI.
These are the types of things that previously would have taken a lot longer to figure out, but that you can get an immediate answer to with AI. That's the fundamental reason why it's taking off. Not because it's being pushed.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
> because they have fear of missing out on AI That's been my experience too, both with friends and coworkers. It would seem that the negative sentiment around AI is largely an internet phenomenon. I've yet to run into a hardcore "AI skeptic" irl. People seem either neutral, or enthusiastic about it.
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.
Most people I meet in everyday life think AI is incredibly useful and use it all the time. I have run into a few people in real life who vehemently oppose it, and many more online, but out in the world, they appear to be a minority.
Re: DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
#380To be honest I use Google AI mode a lot. And Duckduckgo for private search. I default to DDG and use !g if I want to resign from privacy or find some merchandise to buy