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DuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI features (mashable.com)
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[–] 46 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Ddg:

Ran https://voteyesornoai.com/ Where of 175k people, 90% said No AI

Offers noai.duckduckgo.com, presumably to cater to this 90% who don't want it.

Has AI first features in main product. Does not advertise noai much.

So...

  1. It's primary product goes against it's market research
  2. It's pushing AI, not promoting the alternative
  3. People keep promoting ddg for (2) despite (1)

Just seems weird.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Iirc, they explained it on techlore talks like "it"s X% of those who responded in $site, while many qactual users prefer or don't oppose it", or smth of that nature. Also, it appears far less than on google even with constant cookie clearing

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Additionally, people told me that DDG is in bed with Microsoft. If that's true, I guess Ecosia is hopefully better.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    DDG is not in bed with microsoft. DDG uses Bing search index to show its search results alongside wikipedia and others they can.

    Ecosia also uses Bing alongside its own search index. Except Mojeek, Qwant there are very few Independent search engines which don't use Bing or Google as its search index.

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