• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    well they don’t need to fight for new users anymore. Everyone uses it already, and children are basically indoctrinated to it: all schools have that as search engine, often they even use google classroom and drive and whatnot on the classes. if they have chromebooks, the chrome browser automatically starts after login even if you don’t want to use it, and you can’t unpin it from the taskbar either

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          22 minutes ago

          Honestly nothing is good anymore. Every search engine brings up the same SEO optimized dogshit articles. I sometimes use Arc browser but that’s not really that different than asking ChatGPT.

          • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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            10 minutes ago

            It’s so obnoxious. I hate researching a topic only to be fed results leading to useless AI spam. The entire thing is clogged up like this. Searching on the internet absolutely sucks, now.

        • MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
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          1 hour ago

          Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

          • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip
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            10 minutes ago

            I don’t think that’s true. They are using the index of bing, but the search results are not. At least that’s what I heard, no idea if it’s factual or not.

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            13 minutes ago

            Duckduckgo also has bangs, which I consider an essential feature.

            Although I use SearXNG instead, since their equivalent is a lot more customisable (although less bangs out of the box).