I think Duck Wings is their line of menstrual pads

This has always seemed ridiculous to me since they make no-AI searches not even the default, right? There are plenty of search engines that literally have no AI option.

I don't really mind the AI per se. My objection is to the implementation of it where the first returned result is in fact an AI summary which I didn't in fact ask for.

If I search the term lug nuts it's probably because I want to buy some, and not because I want to summary of what they are. It must be such a waste so much water every time they do that, only for me not read it.

Their search is opt-out of AI in settings, instead of google's approach of always on, and you can also use noai.duckduckgo.com to avoid configuring settings.

Their filtering out AI results is hit or miss, but at least they do provide an option to exclude some of those results.

Google's AI policy is to ban schools that don't use AI.

If you allow a cookie, you can turn off ai and ads in settings. If you don’t allow a cookie (or for a private window), you can visit https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ and it has ai turned off.