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I use duckduckgo and I get great search results. To get summaries of stuff that interesting, but not important, I use duck.ai, perplexity.ai or iask.ai. Since

I use duckduckgo and I get great search results. To get summaries of stuff that interesting, but not important, I use duck.ai, perplexity.ai or iask.ai. Since I am happy with the searches, and it takes very little time, I do not want to pay 10 USD per month. I do find it interesting that so many people have such great problems with their searches, but I suspect it is because they are searching for very complicated programming problems. Maybe then, duckduckgo does not work.

hooli_gan 2y ago
For me duckduckgo works great for programming stuff, but for searching local events and restaurants it does not perform as good.
DJHenk 2y ago
> I do find it interesting that so many people have such great problems with their searches Even ignoring the quality of the results, the idea that people refuse to pay 10 dollars for something as essential to life as a search engine continues to baffle me. I think we can all agree on a couple of points: - Information shapes our thoughts and our behaviour. - Search engines provide and direct us to the majority of the information we consume. - Thus, search engines have a significant influence on our thoughts and our behaviour. How anyone can then conclude that the search engine of a hyper capitalistic ad company is the best alternative, just because it is 10 dollars cheaper, is beyond me.