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DuckDuckGo poll says 90% don't want AI in search (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/goodnewseveryone@piefed.social
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[–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Probably 1 in 50 searches, I find that AI adds some value. Nothing that I couldn't work around, but it can save 2 or 3 additional searches and sometimes it gives better links than the main search does.

Usually my searches are good enough to give me the answer in the first few results.

Whenever I see AI pop up and I don't need it, I just feel like it's a huge waste. I do have it turned off on DDG.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The AI generated search blurb is annoying but easy to scroll past (I usually use a cookieless browser so the dismissal option doesn’t work from session to session). What really annoys me are the AI generated websites that pop up as search results. All of them are formatted basically the same so it’s easy to spot after clicking in, but that wastes a lot of time vs previously being able to just scan the preview text.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If you use DDG, set up a search source with the url https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ Then you can have no ai and no cookies.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    This worked! Very excited to stop having to see that, thanks!

    In case anyone else runs across this I chose “add a search engine” in my browser and used the address above plus “search/?q=%s” and it works like a charm:)

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    For me, I only use AI search if I can't find the answer I'm looking for in the first page of the results and I'm good with accepting a "guess" over a definitive source.

    On Kagi with AI off by default it's a matter of just appending a ? to the end of my search query. I have done this 3-4 times in total. I average about 1,000 searches/month.

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