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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] MakingWork@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I love DDG AI

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wha... Why? Why gpt the only baddy?

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

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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