Some of us left it behind quite awhile ago:-).
DuckDuckGo is just Bing.
It’s not just Bing. They added an animal mascot. :-D
In terms of results, yes. But at least there’s no ads, nor sponsored results, nor bloody AI crap.
Please explain
Nice. Downvoted for asking for more information.
It’s powered by Bing. That’s all. Compare DDG results with a private Bing session.
So, it uses Bing to some extent, I’ll take that. But it’s not entirely Bing.
Even if a large part of DDG relies on Bing doesn’t mean they are the same. That’s an oversimplification at least.
To a great extent. To the point that search results are identical.
Since the entire topic is about the quality of results, the comparison is quite valid.
I’m going to need more than “they look similar”. I don’t think it’s a smart thing to trust random people on the internet based off their word alone.
Lots of things could seem similar when they are still very different.
I stated that they are identical, not just similar, and literally told you how to check it for yourself. Nothing is stopping you from verifying, or reading their FAQ where they even admit that they use Bing for most of their results.
Now stop acting so disingenuous.
Doesn’t that just use Bing?
Yes. Go ahead and find a free Google alternative that doesn’t.
i think so, but the results are in any case mostly okay in my experience, and they have an AI feature that ACTUALLY WORKS since it just summarizes relevant parts of wikipedia articles and links you to the precise sections it used.
Yes, but I use it over Bing because Bing filters most of its news articles through MSN and then pressures you to download the app. Either way, both are giving me better results than Google at this point.
And use what instead of??
Duckduckgo, searxng, and if you are willing to pay, kagi is far better than google was.
“is” absolutely, “was” there was a time in the mid-teens when Google’s search was god-like in its powers of finding what I wanted.
Duckduckgo is ok but not great even, although search in general is harder nowadays I think
I noticed a decline in google right around 2015.
2012 it was the best thing running.
Yeah i was mostly referring to pre ai enshitification google. Back when all they did was search the web for you and show you a single text ad, those were the days.
Im also inclined to agree that search in general has gone downhill, but that is more the fault of tech corps locking away info while seo ruins the leftover results.
I’m worried when ml models really take off the current web dies completely between corpos milking it to death, seo producing nothing but hollow, vapid nonsense to keep you engaged with their non information; and then as final nail in the coffin the ml model ability to entirely fabricate virtually anything digital, truth and information will be completely gone.
Kagi has some problems
Bing
Asked Google assistant today what the withdrawal symptoms of Adderall were… got told the suicide prevention hotline. So, that was fun.
To be fair, any drug of abuse potential will usually trigger SAMSHA links in the US by law. That might have been what you saw, and it’s been that way for at least a decade.
That’s… Less than helpful.
(Also, I can try to field this one for you: headaches, fatigue, mental fogginess, sometimes temporary depressed mood or irritability, maybe increased appetite?)
WTF is this sexy Garfield
Google has been mining your dreams
Lets check the google results for italy Huh no results?
“nope”, but it’s a 100-word excerpt from Reddit that pops in just as you’re about to click a link and shifts everything down.
Well in fairness I’ve never been to Italy, so it’s possible it doesn’t exist.
I have been so it does exist. However I’ve never been to Greenland, so Greenland may not exist.
Yeah, but I haven’t met you so…
Greenland is just a trick played on Canadians
Hey now, you’re not wrong, but you don’t have to call us out like that… Eh?
… Sorry.
I have been to it and i can confirm it doesnt exist
I’ve been in Italy a couple of times but hell if I know if I exist.
Does Italy exist?
Google: Blue right?
I’m in Finland so I can only give a sad forlorn look toward Italy and say “First time?”
Anyway.
Now:
Me: “What’s the weather like today?”
Computer: “It’ll be 25°C or so.”
Me: “How do you know that?”
Computer: “I looked up your location and queried the national weather service.”
Soon:
Me: “What’s the weather like today?”
Computer: “It’ll be 25°C or so.”
Me: “How do you know that?”
Computer: “Fuck if I know. I’ve just learned that is a thing that people apparently say in situations like this.”
You: “How do you know that?”
Computer: “u/trollface69420 says ‘Its always 25°C or so lol’”
Well i guess i don’t really exist then.
I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
It’s worse than broken - every time you use google you encourage them, financially, to make it worse. Stock market capitalism. stop doing it.
I quit using Google over the Manifest bullshit.
I switched to the French search engine Qwant. Much nicer.
But every result is a recipe for baguettes
Can’t find anything wrong with that.
But I already know how to make baguette
Problem solved then!? :-P
At least those recipes don’t incorporate glue.
Gluten would like a word
The CIA: “we fuckin’ knew it!”
It has become so bad for results in Spanish too, that I am now self-hosting SearXNG even though I’m the only one using it in my family lol
I did just ask this question of Google assistant and it worked fine. I asked it about rings as well and it explained the composition of rings and pointed to Saturn as the primary example. I definitely think there has been a degradation in service, but the examples given here actually perform just fine.
Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have rings, so the search from 2 years ago was also inaccurate.
If I ask for “planet with rings” and my first result is Saturn, I consider the search functional.
If my first result is an ad for planet fitness, I do not.
Donut rings surround planet fitness
Must be the gym of choice for LEOs.
Google was broken the moment it started to manipulate, in a biased manner, the search results.
