Comment on Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

• Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  DDG is shit.

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

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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      • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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• nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg

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