I’ve used DuckduckGo for at least a decade. When they started embedding their little AI summary thing at the top of the chat I knew it was coming. But recently, it seems when I search anything I get tons of the same slop, SEO pumped, AI generated info pages. There was a time when I would at least stumble upon an old HTML article from a university or something. Everything sucks now. Do they even make encyclopedia books anymore?
boolean stuff don’t even work anymore, you used to get a direct quote when you used “” so search something
Yeah what’s that about? How can that function just cease to work? And we’re okay with it?
-[excludethisterm] means “humiliate me by continuing to surface results with just this term”
“Ya know what? Now I’m going to give you results with that term even more!”
It does still work on google, but you have to go all the way to verbatum mode. Super annoying.