Google’s AI may replace traditional websites and content creators leading to potential monopolization and diminishing user experience - Mrwhosetheboss

  • EuCaue@lemmy.mlB
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    24 days ago

    Sometimes I forget that google is a searching engine, I’ve been using DDG for years now! :)

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      The best thing about ddg is that I can click on any of the result links.

      In google I have to skip like the first 3 rows because they are all tracking ads and my pihole blocks them 😁

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      23 days ago

      I can’t say I’m liking DDG. The first page gives me the same domain links. Like when I search for “eye washing gifs”, the first three links is the same website. Where I’d expect it to give me three separate websites (and combine searches).

      It does that for a few searches.

      But then again, I’m not even liking Google.

      • spiderman@ani.social
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        23 days ago

        have you tried searchpage or searxng? i think they use google (while searxng also use other search engines) beyond the scenes.

        • ikidd@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          I’ve been dogfooding Searxng for a week or so now and I’m sold on it over DDG and certainly over Google. Besides good results out of the box and being selfhosted so I have some search privacy (sorta), you can tune it to get better results for your particular situation.

          Setup was a quick docker compose and env file, and then add it to FF with a rightclick on the URL bar to set it up in my search engines.

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            22 days ago

            i am using a public instance right now, might host one in the future. its just been two days since i started using it and i am still trying to get accustomed to it.

    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.worldOP
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      24 days ago

      Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve gotten fed up with trying to work with Google now. I’ve given up