mrdown@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 6 days agoDuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI featuresmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up1405
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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoThe problem isn’t the LLM summary (easy to disable, what’s the issue there?), but the SEO garbage in the results. I want to like DDG (and tend to use it for “easy” searches), but what’s the point if search atrophies?
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoYep I’ve found this too. DDG has more SEO / AI slop search results than nearly any other search engine.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoYeah. They must be thinking about getting away from Bing, or at least sanitizing the results somehow.
The problem isn’t the LLM summary (easy to disable, what’s the issue there?), but the SEO garbage in the results.
I want to like DDG (and tend to use it for “easy” searches), but what’s the point if search atrophies?
Yep I’ve found this too. DDG has more SEO / AI slop search results than nearly any other search engine.
Yeah.
They must be thinking about getting away from Bing, or at least sanitizing the results somehow.