They’ve decided to incorporate ChatGPT.
Has something changed? This isn’t news. Also why is this privacy related? No data is being exposed.
Not phrasing your queries as a question makes it more likely you will find what you are looking for in a traditional search
Openai has open models now
Well, I think it’s time to move to SearXNG as my main choice of a search engine…
I just did, it’s really good!
I also did it. I did need an extension for it for Firefox for some reason.
I mean, this seems like a really stupid gripe. You can completely disable it for your searches: https://i.xno.dev/FUHSj.png
In addition, it gives you a way to interface with ChatGPT without an account, or using the API, and maintaining privacy… I see this as an absolute win. They stay competitive by including AI for people who can’t live without, while making it completely optional. Offering
duck.aiis a smart move, too. I just don’t see the issue here.Duck.ai is so good, I don’t bother with anything else
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On second thought, maybe they’re doing the right thing. Offering what the competition does with improved privacy and the option to switch it off completely. I personally think LLMs are pretty bad at real-life queries, but ultimately the users will have to decide.
I use ducks AI chat to help me with small tasks and its honestly pretty great. Always worked and has provided me with useful results.
They claim its anonymous, maybe they are lying, maybe they are not. I make sure to rinse anything I put in there first just in case.
“Educational purposes”… because everyone knows it’s good educational practice to spout utter bullshit at people wanting information.
I switched to using searxng instances a while ago. Its getting the job done.
I think searx is using POST or something, which means you can’t bookmark searches, they’re broken in history, and
ifwhen you restart a browser, your search tabs get completely lost.It’s been the worst search UI I’ve seen in the nearly 30 years I’ve used web searches.
Still use it, because of the alternatives.
Am I the only one noticably receiving more adds on duck duck go last few days/week?
I feel like the adds and the AI response thing make it much worse.
Have to scroll a whole screen untill I see a organic result.
You see ads?
You can turn off ads in DDG settings. Better yet, use an adblocker like everyone should.
Hey! I remember people saying the same thing about a different search engine!
I’m open for alternative suggestions. The ease of wiping browser data while excluding preferred sites in duckduckgo is really nice.
You can achieve a similar thing in Firefox with auto delete browsing data in settings, then adding excluded websites.
searxng, I use disroot.
Yeah DDG has been serving up AI slop lately, it’s really annoying.
Ducky see, ducky do. It’s kind of pathetic…
Duck search has never been good at actually finding results.
