DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines

The first half of the first page is all ads now on Google. It's utter shit - the things it's a lot better at than DDG is NLP, being able to understand questions, and anything news related. If you know exactly what you're searching for though, using the old style of search words works great on DDG

Search engines are about to be replaced by AI anyway.

If you want good results, use something like perplexity.ai.

It is slow, so it isn't my main engine. But those results are amazing. You can be very specific in what you are searching and keep refining your search since it remembers your previous results, it tells you why the result is relevant and it also gives summaries of the website so you can know what it says before you click on it.

It truly is artificial intelligent searching.

I do this all the time for work. It still works for me when I put a FDX trk # in

Kagi looks neat but they'd have to have absolutely amazing results if they want me to pay for them, which I doubt they have... And sorry, but paying $10/month for a fucking search engine (where the actual cost per user is negligible and profit scales with number of users extremely nicely) is just insane.

I guess Google would make at most about $1/month off of ads from me... if I didn't block them. I'd be willing to pay that, maybe up to $3 for a really good service. But this is just insane, and continues the trend of "oh you like a service that's not complete crap? I guess you should pay an order of magnitude (or several) more than what's necessary to provide that service, because fuck you, what can you do?"

If I had to pay for every service like that I'd probably spend $500/month just for that and then they'd still figure out that hey, we can still put ads in and make a little bit more cuz why not, what are they gonna do?

Google search is less than useful nowadays. Google assistant seems to be Google's inbred idiot cousin. DDG doesn't seem to be any better. Most of my searches give the same clickbait results that google does.

Honestly, outside of Google Maps, is there any legitimate value to any google product? Is there a single search engine that is brave enough to give 0 results and also literally parses what you're asking instead of valuating against what the advertisers want you to see?

I dream daily of Google imploding, and every single investor at that useless company going immediately bankrupt and destitute for the disgusting, addled, brain-malware they push.

My favorite is when I ask how to do something in Google Slides and Google gives me answers on how to do it in Google Docs. So helpful. Not at all frustrating.

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Depends on what you’re doing. I look up Linux admin stuff. DDG points to the Arch Linux wiki which is solid, even for non-Arch Linux stuff. Google points to random sponsored blog tutorials that are sometimes outdated or the author doesn’t have a full understanding of what their copy-paste terminal commands do.

Recently I used google to look up a Kotlin coding thing. It pointed to every source except the official Kotlin documentation.

Good thing about DDG is you can just add a simple bang to search another site right from the results