TheCunningLinguists
22937
624
7
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/duckduckgo-ai-google-search-b2986989.html
Jun 1, 2026 2:30 PM
TheCunningLinguists
22937
624
7
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/duckduckgo-ai-google-search-b2986989.html
swofromtherock
Point of fact, it isn't self-aware, because it isn't aware of anything.
ElbowDeepInSaintCelestine
If anyone insists on using Google as-is, type in -AI before your search.
ThailandExpress
Sebastopol140
The video from The Infographics Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WyduoGpIPo
cmdshift3
I’m on year 2 or so since I made the switch.
Feralkyn
I have a Firefox addon and such to remove all AI from search results and shit, but you can tell that it still *sorts* them with AI.
ThailandExpress
Non-AI google https://udm14.com
Ivalicenyan
I mean it's hard to show evidence that the Google's AI overview is bad when you have a screenshot of the AI telling you everything correct, without a bias.
This is like that that meme saying Patton Oswalt is a failed comedian and using that photo of him holding an award he got for comedy
PowerPedant
Interesting read on the subject that tells – with evidence – how the ad people took control of the search engine: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Arcadian1
Ed Zitron has been right about a lot of things lately.
PowerPedant
He brings a lot of hard numbers to his AI rants. I enjoy reading those.
PostHartmann
My samsung voice remote couldn't recognize the word Bataan even when I spelled it. I said "you suck". It said back " I'm getting better". I'm getting worried now.
JusticePhrall
Simple. Just use the “the disenshittification Konami code.” (Google it, lol.)
Or go here for some background. https://gizmodo.com/one-simple-trick-makes-google-search-less-shitty-2000515952
dootdootiamgroot
I switched to duck duck go. Fuck Google and fuck ai
dixxienormus
DDG is approximately ratshit outside the US. Hopeless where i live.
tmdkcyotes8
Notice enshittification is only bullet point summary using quotes. Other summaries are presented normally, but "enshittification" is in quotes. Bitch please.
SarcasticComment
I absolutely hate when people use AI for recipes then complain at a potluck their shit turned out weird. Don't be bringing food no one has tried, not even yourself to the public and then complain there's too much sage in this pasta salad.
TheCunningLinguists
SarcasticComment
it's like this though. My wife teaches career tech and they have a culinary department. Students will AI recipes and fuck up the proportions. The chef lets them because it's the only way they'll learn to be smarter about making mashed potatoes for 60. Consequence is the best teacher.
SarcasticComment
the teacher is a solid dude and I respect that when it comes to the student showcase he is hands off. Kids bring their meal ideas, budget it, and show off what they've learned. You get credit on what you make and mistakes are public. The kids sell this culinary out of the classroom a few times a month. It tends to be popular unless something awful was made.
GuyPilot
I'm just going to try duckduckgo for a month and see how I like it
hotaru251
its not self aware...its just been trained on the data that states that is the reason.
DWolf
What search engines do people use instead of google?
Stanistani
Aside from many, many other choices, there's Old Google : https://www.google.com/webhp?udm=14&tbs=li:1
waaahehehe
.
DWolf
I had no idea it existed.
InfocalypseRising
Because they hired the guy that cratered Yahoo and put him in charge of Google search.
ataradov
DDG is basically Bing. They claim they use a mix of results, but if you compare the results, it is pretty much Bing.
OriginalAndWitty
Switched to DDgo for desktop and mobile browser a couple years ago and never looked back. Built in ad block and everything works just like any other browser, no regrets.
sadurdaynight
It's just taking your search request, and instead of pulling the top websites to click on it provides and ai summary. Sometimes this is good enough. But ai summaries are like wiki entries. Someone could be poisonong the well with bad info or entries. We already see fake sites that act like review sites for crappy products to flood folks with fake positive info. We're going to see floods of bullshit sites ahowing up trying to skew ai results now.
badkluster04
but isn't duckduckgo just Bing in disguise?
HonHomes
I tried to find a really upbeat happy song I remembered with the lyrics that are something like "she's sleeping with some other guy, and IIII, just waaaant to diiiieeee" (banger song as I remember it)
And the FUCKING clanker started sycophantingly saying "oh, I'm sowwy that's happening to you" which offended me so fucking much I had 0 perseverance to find the actual song after a few shit results.
sacrosanctt
Dammit. That sounds familiar. So familiar that I'm now trying to find this song while the clanker tells me not to kms
HonHomes
I think my vague memory of it was from a gif here where someone was on their porch with a coffee while there was a house fire being fought close enough to be visible, and that song was added in as a parallel juxtaposition of calm/happy and chaos/sadness.
sacrosanctt
https://youtu.be/mEuC5O6TiR0
This the one?
HonHomes
Yes! Thank you!
I actually remembered it being more upbeat, but yeah, it's exactly this one, thank you so much
CedricDur
The fucking clankers and they pretending of being human and puritan gets the worst off me.
GratuaCuun
Also, because so much of its parameters are now controlled by OTHER AIs - and those parameters are being generated based on the results generated by OTHER AIs (for worse and for WAY WORSE) we have, basically, achieved the 'dead internet theory' WHILE still being forced to live and/or interact with it 😛
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ajB5MnNpbmR2ajd1dmtjMnp5OW5hM2pnbWo3ZmdmMTI3Zjh3bGR6OCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/aFfYlsEdiWPDi/200w.webp
deetatron
WigglyBlondeNoodle
Funny how quickly AI cannibalizes itself.
GratuaCuun
It's the suits demanding constant growth and short cuts - AI needs data to build algorithms. So much data is owned that its easier to just steal data from other AIs
See the problem the Asgard ran into when they kept cloning themselves
AllBent
Daisy, Daisy, tell me your answer true...
adiving
Wasn't that always gonna be the result with the dead internet theorie?
GratuaCuun
The dead internet theory is that EVERYONE has been replaced by machines - not that we'd all be trapped in here with BB8 https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Z203dXc1eDQ4cmNqd21wMW04anppbWk1dHZiNWU0NWJ2eHJ5ZnIxNyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ornjU0VM71ODjzjuU/200w.webp
adiving
And what would the situation be slightly before reaching that ending.
GratuaCuun
Not the dead internet theory https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bGtlM3U2NnNwdjI0ZnJ6NXgwN2kxNTQzdWpzcnBoc3I3OW11c2lpYyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/WpgM6JBrmBy8Gac5pW/200w.webp
fartharder
sleepwellfriend
DuckDuckGo yes. I’m also using Wikipedia’s app way more now.
Evenmoreuselessname
Except sometimes I search ddg and get all AI generated dreck trying to puff out 1 piece of information into a bullet list and advertising inflated repetitive monstrosity
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
You can turn off their AI and it should save that preference.
Evenmoreuselessname
Not the AI in the search, all the top pages in the HITS are AI dreck. Happens regularly and I have to go to Google.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Ah. Have you tried Qwant? It’s the main one I use.
Evenmoreuselessname
Nope, I'll give it a shot.
iusedtodream
Last week I tried to search for the title of a book. No search engine even came close. They all pushed AI. The internet is broken. I tried my usual Firefox, then DuckDuckGo, and in desperation I opened Chrome. All failed. All suggested AI options. I had to do the unthinkable: I had to ponder and think and dredge my own memory. Success! The greatest book you've never heard about: The Mind Parasites.
Heelcat70
RFK Jr. doesn't mind parasites.
wadatahmydamie
DuckDuckGo is so godawful. Awesome job guys, I like being able to block sites from my results - oh wait, I can only block five, ever.
At least the results are good, if I narrow my search to Wikipedia or Reddit.
emu314159127001
Even before the enshit era, it was pretty tough, the what's that book special thread over at goodreads is where to go. Sometimes the Reddit sub equivalent can get it done, but goodreads is where I've had success
Imalwaysready
This is the shitty future we built for ourselves.
michiyl
The shitty future that was forced on us without anyone asking if we want it. It's always about profits, not progress.
Imalwaysready
We buy, though. We use. We consume. We could push back in ANY feature, function, policy, or product at literally ANY time. We could all unsubscribe from bad streamers. We could stop using Amazon. They only do this shit because it works and we don’t put up significant resistance. They come up with shit ideas, but if we tolerate it and reward them with continued sales and membership…they have literally zero reason to change course. WE have to stop bitching and start acting.
laurapede83
Seeing as it's you recommending it, not ai, I'm going to look for it on my next trip to my local library! Best place on earth besides my own apt.
seedye
I’ve been using ecosia.org, which donates its profits, and produces more energy than it uses.
Leaps
Try Kagi, it is pay but you get a good amount of searches for free to see if you like it.
usingYourMomAsAHat
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ should work, but yeah I'd suggest you roll up your sleeves and get tech savvy, if you aren't already, and start looking into self-hosting. I use SearXNG running on my own computer for example which just queries a bunch of search engines of my own choosing and strips all bloat&ads while sending no telemetry. It's the best search engine, because it uses whatever you like
marquettegoldeneagles
.
iusedtodream
I feel like a kid with floaties learning to swim by mostly flopping about and not actively drowning. Thank you for helping =)
Druidhunter77
.
JohnThatcher
Duckduckgo also has the option of filtering searched date range. I find setting it to limit results to stuff between 2000 and 2020 helps a lot.
AyatollahBahloni
rezurok
*was
DWolf
He was funny at first but got repetitive, racist, Mysogynistic, &tc. Whenever I happened to see a funny strip during the declining years, I wondered who ghosted it for him.
wadatahmydamie
Even at first it was kinda generic and lowkey megalomaniacal. He said up front that Dogbert was his stand-in
DWolf
Oy, I had no idea on that. I thought Dilbert would've been.
edevolt
I'm sorry, tried to understand his humor, but couldn't.
wraith203
They changed their company motto some years ago.
fartharder
Someone should notify Scott Adams... oh
Clockworkdancerobot
Stopped clock and all that.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
He's about as stopped as it gets, thankfully!
TheGreatAtomsk
adams is the best kind of racist twat - a dead one!
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
I forgot he died. Thanks for reminding me! :D
pilomotor
/gallery/memory-of-scott-adams-rip-65tIrKg
PresldentClef
I'm shocked how well the switch has gone for myself over the last few months.
philmoregraves
Yeah I made the switch just under a year ago and its working quite nicely imo. I'll still use Google on rare occasions when I wanna use just base image search to see if someone has posted their naughties but thats about it
[deleted]
[deleted]
philmoregraves
Wild how fast that response was. Roughly 32 seconds after my comment
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Multiple search engine alternatives that I use. DeGoogled my phone. Swapped to Linux. Most everything has been going swimmingly. A few hiccups in the name of privacy I am willing to tolerate.
TurtleByrdThey
It really is all about the trade off between convenience and privacy...i have been going as far off grid as i am comfortable, and learned so much along the way
TheCunningLinguists
I've been using DDG for several years, and am pretty happy with the way it works.
Froggie243
It's not as good as peak Google, but I'll be damned if I return to Google
snarkybitch
Duck duck is pushing ai too tho. I tried to turn off the ai features and it crashes constantly 🙃
usingYourMomAsAHat
You using this? https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ never had a problem myself but idk
rotinaj
DuckDuckGo has been seen to turn off the “no ai” function and set you back to using AI fairly regularly, because like every other company, they want you to use it and justify the expense
usingYourMomAsAHat
Not saying you're wrong but my immediate thought is that there either is some misconfiguration in place or some data that isn't persisting. Is this the DDG browser or just search engine In other browser?idk if it would be different but If through other browser atleast then I guess whatever setting you want to persist gets stored in cookies which ofc will revert back to AI if cleared. Could that be the cause if that issue?
usingYourMomAsAHat
I primarily use selfhosted alternative so I wouldn't know but I can check tomorrow probably
snarkybitch
I didnt know the noai existed before like 2 hours ago. I shouldn't have to use a special link tho. I should be able to turn off ai in the regular browser.
eronth
Can you not? I'm pretty sure there's an option like right there to turn it off.
snarkybitch
Yes I turned it off and now the browser crashes constantly
Eragoon
open https://duckduckgo.com/, open the burger menu in the top right, click on "settings", click on the "AI Features" bubble, and then change it how you want
snarkybitch
I did