Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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I love DDG AI

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Yeah, I trust DuckDuckGo. And I like they anonymize my AI queries. I feel like it’s the next best thing to running it locally.

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Does their ‘anonymizing queries’ feat mean anything if they don’t disclose how it works or what that even means literally?

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At least with the open source models the data is not sent to the big bad tech cooperations afaik

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“Trust me bro”

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Just dont use ChatGPT but one of the other models. I find LLama to work fine.

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Wha… Why? Why gpt the only baddy?

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Well afaik they host their open source models them selves / with a cloud service they have control over so no data going to big bad tech

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DDG does the job. Hopefully, I won’t have to switch engines soon.

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Wait 'til you learn that DDG’s engine is Bing

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ddg maps is just a no-frills apple maps.

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which is to say: terrible

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Agreed. Even if it were identical to Google maps in terms of content, it runs slower on all platforms I’ve so far tried (windows, iOS, OSX).

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yes, it is. but between it and graphhopper (or osm), it’s “enough” for me.

i don’t need a feature-filled “app” (my phone is ‘dumb’), and the only time i end up on something else like bing or google maps is if a site i need to use embeds and relies upon them.

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DDG is just Bing

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Sorta not really.

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I got identical results with a side-by-side comparison.

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the bulk of its search results come from bing. only its instant answers and ai features aren’t bing

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isn’t it just a bing wrapper?

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No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.

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Last time I checked, it matched Bing results exactly.

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Yahoo is Bing too

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Yup.

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