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Sam_Bass , to technology in Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

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

exanime ,

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

Sam_Bass ,

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

GeraltOfRivia_ ,

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

TheRealKuni ,

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

Sam_Bass ,

Dont think so. Havent examined the code though

TheRealKuni ,

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 ,

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

Squizzy ,

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 ,

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

bluewing , to technology in Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

I’ve switched from DuckDuckGo to Ghostery Private search. I’ve been happier with the results than DDG.

Squizzy ,

Nice thanks for this

CileTheSane , to technology in Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Can someone explain why the fuck Google is pushing this so hard? Generative AI is not a general intelligence, and useless for concrete facts. Google has already demonstrated how shitty it is for information, and the people with the knowledge to work on the project have to know this.

So why the fuck are they all full steam ahead on something that will always be useless for them?

rogue_scholar ,

Because the engineers aren’t in charge anymore

towerful ,

AI is hype.
They’ve recently signed a deal with Reddit for AI parsable data. Reddit reciprocated by allowing Google to be the only indexable search engine.
Google now thinks it can do the same to literally everyone else.
Googling is pretty damn mainstream.
Don’t give Google your data, then don’t be included in googles search results. It’s like a flip of their previous trade with reddit, except it’s not a trade. It’s extortion.

Reddit never gave Google traffic. They gave them content and data.
And Google thinks it can withdraw traffic from other sites unless they get data in return.
Google is a monopoly.
Literally extortion

homesweethomeMrL OP ,

Magic beans.

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