tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot

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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago*

    Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren't Google use data from Bing. It's the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately even most DDG results are just ai slop now.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.

    So if you're looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across "First of all, what is a Linux, we're going to..." Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.

    Not perfect, but definitely helps!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You're quite limited on how many sites you can block. I at least try to report them, but it's 90% of results and ai just keeps generating new domain names. Welcome to homehelpfixshowervalve.com!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oh my gosh the hyper-specific domain names are the WORST. ☠️

    It's like a dream come true for all those get-rich-online-Lambo-selfie-bullshit-artists!

    But having to pay for those domains, and ad eords worth much less now, how the heck is this strategy even worth it I wonder?

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