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

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 months ago

      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.

      • tisktiskEnglish
        3•2 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          2•2 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 months ago

          Well afaik they host their open source models them selves / with a cloud service they have control over so no data going to big bad tech