Hell, it’s getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it’s usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it’s usually best to ignore it and read the answer it’s trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it’s right.
Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I’ve been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.
Hell, it’s getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it’s usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it’s usually best to ignore it and read the answer it’s trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it’s right.
at least ddg respects the “never show me this” toggle.
You can turn off ai results
Set this as an alternative search engine
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
Note the ‘%25s’ is supposed to be just ‘%s’. Dunno’ why lemmy adds 25 in there… URL encoding maybe?
Correct, %25 is the escape for a percent sign
Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I’ve been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.