mrdown@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoDuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI featuresmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1317arrow-down14
arrow-up1313arrow-down1external-linkDuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI featuresmashable.commrdown@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square27linkfedilink
minus-squareLunar@lemmy.mlcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·1 month agofunny because i left duckduckgo since it’s littered with AI shit now. it’s just a metasearch engine for bing anyway and there are about a million of those.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThe problem isn’t the LLM summary (easy to disable, what’s the issue there?), but the SEO garbage in the results. I want to like DDG (and tend to use it for “easy” searches), but what’s the point if search atrophies?
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoYep I’ve found this too. DDG has more SEO / AI slop search results than nearly any other search engine.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoYeah. They must be thinking about getting away from Bing, or at least sanitizing the results somehow.
funny because i left duckduckgo since it’s littered with AI shit now.
it’s just a metasearch engine for bing anyway and there are about a million of those.
Noai.duckduckgo.com
The problem isn’t the LLM summary (easy to disable, what’s the issue there?), but the SEO garbage in the results.
I want to like DDG (and tend to use it for “easy” searches), but what’s the point if search atrophies?
Yep I’ve found this too. DDG has more SEO / AI slop search results than nearly any other search engine.
Yeah.
They must be thinking about getting away from Bing, or at least sanitizing the results somehow.