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Has 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 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 started using Kagi for any "important" searches and I have to say it works very well, quite a contrast to what DDG has now become.
I am confused. Ddg is a web search engine. So for Mac seems like a type error. The linked page tells you that they are hiring, and how to install the project, but /not what it is/.
Google is the search engine. Google Chrome is the browser. Ddg is the search engine. Ddg for mac/Windows is the browser.
Has 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 am confused. Ddg is a web search engine. So for Mac seems like a type error. The linked page tells you that they are hiring, and how to install the project, but /not what it is/.
https://duckduckgo.com/mac You'll never guess the one trick I used to find that. They don't want you to know.
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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.
Has 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.
Over the last 12 months or so I was getting that problem with Google, but they seem to have realised that a lot of people were saying that and changed. Whatever Google did wrong for my searches a year ago — and perhaps even that was "not keeping ahead in the race against hostile SEO" — it's entirely possible DDG is doing wrong for your searches right now.
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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.
(Kagi, for anyone willing to do the same. It's great!)