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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)
[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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

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