I’m finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I’m searching. This is very prevalent when I’m searching for pirate sites. I’m falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.

Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?

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Yeah I’ve experienced it too and switched to startpage.

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DuckDuckGo is just a bing proxy. I think Microsoft is working on optimizing it for their copilot thing.

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Huh? Doesn’t DDG uses the os default webview?

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The DuckDuckGo search engine gets it’s results from the Bing search engine

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Bing powers so much of the alternative (meta)sphere

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duck duck go is showes Bing results. maybe Microsoft is doing somthing.

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In general, I noticed that a significant degradation of search engines began to occur after the appearance of chatGPT, perhaps this is somehow related. Before that, degradation was slower. Maybe in Google for example they were a little afraid that ChatGPT would learn from their search engines and replace them…

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Well i dont search anythibg anymore i just have an ai that searches with searxng then answers based on results from that.

EDIT: Why downvote? Is the ai hate boner that bad?

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How do you do that?

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Found some python code that can act as a openai api proxy. Wrote an ai agent with langchain search tools persistent memory image generators sandboxed code execution environment calculator etc. Use an uncensored llm via openrouters, openai api for vector embedding, locality hosted stable diffusion. Locally hosted searxng. Then i can use any openai api compatable frontend and just point it at my proxy and have an advanced agent in almost any environment.

Havnt published it yet was thinking i could give it an autogpt or baby agi backend but havnt had any success with that yet.

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I also noticed redoing a search sometimes yields different results despite using the exact same keywords.

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I had the same and just realised that the order of the results got rearranged.

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Maybe it’s a fairness strategy? Rather than show everyone the same list so that only the top 3 get all the clicks, they rotate them to spread the traffic.

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