Set up https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ as my default search engine

[chiraag@mastodon.online]

@cwebber Same!

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@cwebber it's pretty good!

[amcooper@toot.cat]

@cwebber aw yiss

[bogpunk@chitter.xyz]

@cwebber Honestly, it's been about as good as Google for a while now. Not really because it's gotten any better though

[annika@xoxo.zone]

@cwebber Honestly it's pretty good. I very rarely pop in !g to double check the Google results (which are slowly degrading anyway)

[tom@labyrinth.social]

@cwebber I finally made the switch recently too. I wanted to like DuckDuckGo for years but I found the quality of their results too much of a downgrade from Google (for the kinds of searches that I do). Now I've come around to DDG, not because their results have improved, but because Google's have deteriorated

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber I’ve been using Kagi for a while and (for me) it has better results.

Plus they’re incentivized to see me as customer, not as a blob of data to sell.

Of course they have their own problems too (like bad Safari integration).

[medeavanamonde@beige.party]

@cwebber
Dump all Google Stock

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@cwebber
I did a while ago, it's so much better this way!

(For people who don't know, the full string to set is "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s")

[mlanger@mastodon.world]

@cwebber @TimChaffee I switched to Kagi. Worth every freaking penny.

[r1rail@pouet.chapril.org]

@silvermoon82 @cwebber This string does not work for me when there is a / in the searched string....

[nocturnalnessa@infosec.exchange]

@cwebber if theres a massive movement away from google that could be the bubble pop

[timchaffee@ioc.exchange]

@mlanger @cwebber they have a free trial, I am going to check it out, thanks!

https://kagi.com/pricing

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@cwebber FWIW Startpage is no AI by default & they say (!) they will keep it that way.