Google’s AI results are what finally got me to switch my default search engine to noai.duckduckgo.
You can set it with
in your web browser settings.
Edit: posting here keeps adding a “25” after the percent sign and before “s&noai=”. You don’t need the number there.
I ran ddg for a while it got crappy. I’ve since moved to kagi
I use Start Page with Mozilla. Or brave with duck duck go
Kagi, ecosia, quant, ddg! Searxng for the nerds
%25is URL encoding for, since all the encoding sequences start with % and then have a hexadecimal ASCII code after them, 25 being %.It is normal for it to be added and the browser just resolves %25 to % much like it would resolve %3F to ? for example
Google’s AI results are what finally got me to switch my default search engine to noai.duckduckgo.
Yeah I used to DDG for a good while then when they rolled out the ai (before the noai subdomain I guess), I decided that something I use 10 to 30 times in a day might actually be worth paying for and just went with a paid service that lets me turn all that off.
The important thing is to get off the goog, though. They’re too big for all our good now.
They ruined their search engine too
Also the internet.
And mobile apps. And smartphones. And browsers. And image formats. And the general concept of privacy…
Not only make less money, but literally pay money for people to engage with it for free
have they tried putting more more ai in it? the investors all agreed this was the best solution!
Oh no, people are leaving us because the things we did well are getting worse!
PUT MORE AI IN IT!! TRIPLE DOWN!!! KISS THE CRUSTY ORANGE BROWN RING!
It gets even better. The trillion dollar chatbot is not only killing the basis for search but its very own as well: All those content creators, small ones, large ones, commercial ones. They all are dying because of it, yet the chatbot needs constant feeding to stay alive, and will poison itself if fed on its own content. … This will be fun.
I never understood the previews, AI or otherwise. Why would a company pay you for placement when the preview steals your content and puts it above your ad?
Trouble is, the web for which the PageRank algorithm was developed has long since died - its highly decentralized, interlinked network of freely available information has almost entirely been replaced by centralized, account-gated silos. Web search engines, in turn, have gotten progressively worse since long before LLMs had become computationally feasible.
I don’t run into or use much AI, but Gemini seems to be the worst I encounter. It does pretty well at presenting facts and summations, but I’ve found it wrong enough times to be leary.
Gemini 4 Argon seems to be pretty damn good actually. But that’s not what you get in those search summaries, you get some smaller and possibly even quantized model because if they ran every single search on their frontier model, that would bankrupt them soon lol
Google’s got an image problem with their AI because of this. Unless you use Gemini on an Android phone (which not everyone even has), your primary way of encountering it is the quick and cheap model they use on the search page, whereas the other guys will serve you a decent model, but tell you to pay or piss off after a while
Yep, I only see the search page. Your opinion on converting my Google Home Minis to using Gemini? Sounds like I can do that now and the use has always been extremely limited.
It’s temporary. They’ll start shutting down the non-AI alternatives soon enough and there will be grumbling, but people will fall in line like they always do. This is a minor hit. It’s them mentioning that people aren’t feeding enough into the dumpster fire, but they’re simultaneously sealing off more and more exits.
Oh, none of these companies make money! They parasite off from governments practicing free market “Liberalism” giving them cash and contracts and they do pump and dump stock trading schemes to get good valuations, big investments and big bank loans then just time the accruing and dispersal of their debts carefully.
At some point the investments and saving accounts just start self-reproducing money because we don’t have an economy that expects organizations to have a trillion dollars… So it’s for practical purposes an infinite money glitch.
They don’t make money they just acquire enough of it that the money starts reproducing.
Also, I’m sure all of that doesn’t cause/contribute to inflation \s
Money is only a means to power. If they get the power through other means, them losing money indicates nothing about their success.
I was born to be evil. I’m a member of the Bar Sinister AND I was born on a dark Halloween night. My mother always told me I kept her up all night when I was born.
Duckduckgo.com Ftw
