alt Hacker NewsThis is another area where DDG shines - it doesn't have a commercial relationship with Reddit, so doesn't push it in its results.
DDG's 'Search Assist' AI overviews are pretty basic but they tend to be sourced from Wikipedia and traditional media outlets rather than forums and blogs - they can be out of date, but are generally a lot less "spicy" than the sources that Google use.
I guess Google is much better-optimised for engagement but that's not what I'm looking for, meaning that DDG is a better choice for me.
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seanw444 • yesterday at 6:21 PM
I've been fairly impressed by DDG for a few years now. I find everything I'm looking for just fine, and the AI summaries are actually helpful on occasion.
As a counter-anecdote: I've had such consistently bad results from its AI summaries that I've changed over to the no-AI page entirely - well over half have been very obviously incorrect or answering something completely different but spelled similarly (but not the same, especially true for chemical names), and the links it includes as references often directly oppose its summary.
I suspect the model might just be too small? Which makes sense when exposing it for free, but it's still a bad experience.