searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is…
no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?
searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is…
no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?
Noai.duckduckgo.com
Still not the best, but it searches the web in the old school way, so it’s more reliable.
I mean that just gets rid if the AI summary box. All the results returned are the same… right?
No, it also gets rid of the ai search suggestions. So it actually looks at what you searched for not what it thinks you want.
I stubbornly clung to Google despite years of increasing problems out of habit and convenience. I just switched to DuckDuckGo a few weeks ago because I was finally fed up.
The turning point was trying to remember a song with only a few words in my head. I searched multiple variations of it, with and without quotes. The AI response (because I hadn’t turned it off) basically said, “nah mate, there aren’t any songs that say anything like that,” and search contained less than 10 total results, none of which were helpful.
Finally I remembered a few more words and searched again, and found the exact song. And it included, verbatim, a line I’d previously searched in quotes.
I also searched it on Kagi and didn’t get any results, sadly (I really love the concept of Kagi).
Since switching to DDG has been like going back 8 years in search quality—way better.
That’s my go to as well. I just wish the default page was the noai one and if you wanted slop you had to go to ai.duckduckgo.com
You can set it as the default.
Just add it to the list of available search engines, and then make it the default?
What I mean it is just be default for everyone without extra steps. GenAi should be opt in, not opt out.