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by yegg 3mo ago
I think what people mean by everyone varies a lot, which is why I wanted to draw attention to more specific numbers. For example, in the Datos data cited[1], on desktop 86% were using traditional search engines >10 visits/month vs.
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Not everyone is using AI for everything(gabrielweinberg.com)
512 points by yegg 3mo ago|546 comments
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by yegg 4mo ago
You’re welcome!
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by yegg 4mo ago
Duck it.
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by yegg 4mo ago
Thanks!
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by yegg 4mo ago
Thanks. On the maps, is this through a VPN?
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by yegg 4mo ago
FYI, we (DuckDuckGo) now have a subscription service ( https://duckduckgo.com/pro ) and one could always turn off ads on our search engine ( https://duckduckgo.com/settings ).
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by yegg 4mo ago
Thanks, and thanks for the report. Will investigate.
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by yegg 4mo ago
Got it, thanks for the clarification. We have been working on our own web index that should ultimately help with that.
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by yegg 4mo ago
That feature (Search Assist) can be turned off in the settings, and we have a noai.duckduckgo.com domain that automatically turns it off along with other AI features. That said, Search Assist just summarizes web content and does not generat
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by yegg 4mo ago
We (DuckDuckGo) does if you add reddit to the query; that forces our reddit module to show.
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by yegg 4mo ago
If you mean on DuckDuckGo, we have a (relatively new) reddit module that should surface that content if you add reddit to your query.
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by yegg 4mo ago
Just FYI, at DuckDuckGo we have a search setting to turn ads off: https://duckduckgo.com/settings We also have a no ai version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
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by yegg 4mo ago
Thank you!
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by yegg 4mo ago
Sorry you feel that way, pooploop64. We are doing a complete brand refresh this year though.
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by yegg 4mo ago
We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd... ). But on top of
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by yegg 4mo ago
Well, I'd love to know; as I've said in some other comments, we've changed and improved a lot in the last couple years and so feel free to send me feedback.
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by yegg 4mo ago
Our results have continually improved, and would be happy to take your feedback (email is in my profile) if you give it another try.
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by yegg 4mo ago
Do extensions not work there as well? In any case you could set it yourself as default search: noai.duckduckgo.com
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by yegg 4mo ago
We now have an official noai Chrome Extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/duckduckgo-no-ai-se...
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by yegg 5mo ago
This hasn't been our experience; can you please reach out to me with specific examples? My email is in my profile.
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by yegg 9mo ago
Thank you
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by yegg 9mo ago
Yes, we have image search. If you do a search, just click on images. We also recently added the ability to filter out a large portion of AI-generated images.
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by yegg 9mo ago
We're still supportive, donating to the Perl foundation the last two years: https://duckduckgo.com/donations
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by yegg 9mo ago
Back of the envelope for you: Google does about $200B in search revenue, about half in the U.S. (so $100B). We have about 3% markt share in the U.S., which would equate to about $3B in Google monetization. Now, we make way way less than Goo
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by yegg 9mo ago
We offer Email Protection: https://duckduckgo.com/email It isn't full email, but removes trackers in your email before it gets sent to you, which is the most privacy-invasive part of email. More info at https:/&#
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by yegg 9mo ago
Ads are optoinal and private; you can turn ads off in the settings if you want. Per our privacy policy: "Viewing ads on DuckDuckGo Search is anonymous, like the rest of our search results (as described above)." More info at https
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by yegg 9mo ago
We monitor closely and if something is off then we correct it. If you have particular examples in mind right now, please share them with me so I can look into them.
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by yegg 9mo ago
It's neither, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259466 I just made. If you see results missing, I'd be happy to look into them. My email is in my profile.
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by yegg 9mo ago
Human traffic really shouldn't be seeing that -- if you want to email me I can try to sort it out to improve our systems.

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