The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.

      • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        DDG is shit.

        Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?

          • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Effective search results.

            Two recent examples:

            • searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
            • searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.
            • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.

    • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?