Comment by 🚀 RubyMaelstrom

I just wanted to mention, if you don't like some of the extra features that DDG may introduce/show in their results, just use the lite version, that's my default search engine: https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite/

I actually like AI quite a bit, but I like it when I want it, not when I'm not expecting/asking for it.

Aug 08 · 4 months ago

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In a professional scientific setting, where details matter, I really find the AI useless and annoying. I should know, it mangles my own journal articles.

Well then you also should enjoy DDG Lite, not an AI in sight. :)

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Would you pay for search? — Arstechnica has a front page article about Kagi, a paid search engine. The argument is somewhat compelling to me at least. It's thus: (paraphrased) "...