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submitted 1 day ago by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, I trust DuckDuckGo. And I like they anonymize my AI queries. I feel like it’s the next best thing to running it locally.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does their 'anonymizing queries' feat mean anything if they don't disclose how it works or what that even means literally?

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

At least with the open source models the data is not sent to the big bad tech cooperations afaik

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 1 day ago

"Trust me bro"