Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
DDG results are getting worse too, but it could just be because AI slop is so good at SEO.
The first page of results I get for “solution” queries, are almost always just chatbox 3 page general essays about the search term I used, but no actual solution.
Google’s AI is destroying Google. I doubt it’s doing anything to DuckDuckGo or my brain. “Destroying the internet” also seems a bit much.
Maybe we shouldn’t feel so safe using DDG. It still relies on Bing results, which could be enshittified just as much if not more than Google’s.
DDG results are getting worse too, but it could just be because AI slop is so good at SEO.
The first page of results I get for “solution” queries, are almost always just chatbox 3 page general essays about the search term I used, but no actual solution.
People don’t want to admit that DDG has been a steaming shitloaf for more than a year
Ddg is just as mangled as google except you can’t choose ‘verbatim’