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Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by homesweethomeMrL to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2178630

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[–] Sam_Bass 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Been on ddg for a few months now. Doesnt look like i need to go back either

[–] exanime 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I found ecosia faster and better results. Just letting you know in case you want to try

[–] Sam_Bass -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would try it but its tied to microsloths bing for results

[–] TheRealKuni 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t DDG also tied to Bing? I could be mistaken.

[–] Sam_Bass -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dont think so. Havent examined the code though

[–] TheRealKuni 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Just looked it up to confirm. From DuckDuckGo’s page on the topic:

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

Edit: That said, I’d rather use DDG than Bing because DDG eats Bing’s tracking for me, as I understand it.

[–] Sam_Bass 4 points 4 months ago

O well. Its just not possible get totally away from the big dogs

[–] GeraltOfRivia_ 1 points 4 months ago

Bing's results are superior to Google these days ime. Has been for a good while too.

[–] Squizzy 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ddg are shit too, search a name and they will relate it you locally even if you turn off regional results.

Click a link and go back to results and they have changed.

Ddg is enshittifying.

[–] Sam_Bass 2 points 4 months ago

Well it gets me here and to .ml so i cant complain