Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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    1 month ago

    Today I caught myself unconsciously went to Duckduckgo to make a search (even tho the browser start page is already google).

    Thinking back, I’ve been using duckduckgo more than google, and often because I can’t find what I’m looking for on Google but ads and autogenerated fake webpages.

    History will prove it once again, there’s no such thing as “too big to fail”.

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      1 month ago

      DDG is just Bing. At least as far as the core search algorithm goes.

      Unfortunately, my experience is the opposite. I tried to use DDG for about a month and consistently found myself giving up, Googling instead, and finding a relevant stack overflow page or reddit thread or whatever on the first page of results.