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

        • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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          -56 months ago

          DDG is shit.

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

            • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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              16 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.world
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                46 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.world
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        36 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?