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I use DuckDuckGo, with the occasional reddit !g appended if I'm looking for something experience-based. For me, searches fall into one of three categories, non
by RattlesnakeJake 2y ago
I use DuckDuckGo, with the occasional reddit !g appended if I'm looking for something experience-based.
For me, searches fall into one of three categories, none of which are a good fit for LLMs:
1. A single business, location, object, or concept (I really just want the Google Maps or Wikipedia page, and I'm too lazy to go straight to the site). For these queries, LLMs are either overkill or outdated.
2. Product reviews, setup instructions, and other real-world blog posts. LLMs want to summarize these, and I don't want that.
3. Really specific knowledge in a limited domain ("2017 Kia Sedona automatic sliding door motor replacement steps," "Can I exit a Queue-Triggered Azure Function without removing it from the queue?"). In these cases, the LLMs are so prone to hallucination that I can't trust them.
- supportengineer 2y agoIn response to the final sentence, you can work around this by breaking your problem or question down into smaller pieces. Essentially forcing it to reason, manually.
- throwawa14223 2y agoYou can but that is incredibly slow for me compared to a search term.
- inferiorhuman 2y agoUnfortunately DDG still enshittifies their results with AI garbage as much as they can. Both with the intrusive AI blob at the top and replacing the page summaries with dreadful AI goobleygook.
- dijksterhuis 2y agoYou can disable the AI summary thing: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/how-to-hide-ai-chat/ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/how-to-h...
- inferiorhuman 2y agoOther way around. That disables the AI chatbot monstrosity at the top of the page. But only if you're logged in and/or don't clear your cookies. The AI word salad summaries for each individual page have no toggle (unless you count !g).
- dijksterhuis 2y agoI actually have two settings in the AI features settings area: one for "chat" and another for "assist" -- which I think is the word salad summaries? I've got chat set to Off and assist set to Never. Searching 'octatrack' has the wikipedia page on the top right as a summary box thing. no ai word salad for me :shrug:
- inferiorhuman 2y agoA/B testing. I don't always get AI gibberish in place of actual page summaries. Either way I want to see actual results even if I clear my cookies or open a new private tab.
- dijksterhuis 1y agoi don't know if you'll ever see this -- but i just discovered this exists today: https://noai.duckduckgo.com https://noai.duckduckgo.com
- hbn 2y agoI've tried DDG but it doesn't seem much different from the results on Google/Bing (as I understand it they use Bing's search index anyway?)
- fsflover 2y agoIf DGG isn't much different and it doesn't track you, then what's the point of using Google?
- georgemcbay 2y agoI still use google but I pretty much always append site:reddit.com to the query. The answer I'm seeking is not always on reddit itself, but google limited to reddit is far more likely to give me quality starting links than google unbound is.