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FuckFuckNo. 🤦‍♀️

I just want a search engine that works. I have zero need for a godawful "AI" hallucinating mansplainer in my results. Just… no.

Time to move off of DDG. What else is out there?

Edit: yes, it seems to be for real:
https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1adxgy4/give_duckduckgo_ai_chat_a_spin/

#DuckDuckGo #AI

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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

I don’t think people realise DuckDuckGo is a Microsoft Bing operation skinned as privacy. It’s why they accidentally filtered terms critical of China at the same time as Bing did. I wouldn’t use it.
in reply to Kevin Beaumont

@GossiTheDog yeah, I'm aware. I would much prefer a search engine with decent results that is supported by paying customers.
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@GossiTheDog

You should check out Kagi. $10 a month for unlimited search. Now, they do have FastGPT and universal summarizer which are LLM based tools but FastGPT provides links from the search as its sources and you do not have to use it. Otherwise it frankly feels as good as a google search. Also supports bangs and custom “lens” which are scoped searches limited to specific sites, like programming documentation. You can also rank results so you can pin good ones and lower bad ones.

in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@archliberal @GossiTheDog Their "AI crap" is just a summary assistant that doesn't automatically activate unless you end your query with a '?'. And they're only using Brave's API to pull some search results from them to supplement results from Google, Bing, and their own index.
in reply to Jcrabapple

@jcrabapple how does it make sense to defend "AI" in Search Engine B in a thread that started with me complaining about Search Engine A adding "AI"? Honestly, I am confused here. Help me out.

@archliberal @GossiTheDog

in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@archliberal @GossiTheDog my point is just that if you want a good search engine that doesn't shove AI/LLM down your throat, Kagi is a great option.