>enshitify web searching by turning SEO into a career
>search all the top web resultsto train AI
Why are top web results enshitified AI?
After recently noticing AI image results in practically every search I’ve made, I switched over to Duckduckgo as my default search engine. I realize this article isn’t about search results but Google seems to not understand that these practices are pushing users away
I’ve also switched to duckduckgo as my default search engine, but I do find myself falling back to google more often than I’d like because duckduckgo can’t find what I’m searching for.
I think you get used to it, or you realise the google results nearly universally suck?
I’ve been using DDG for many years now, and have maybe used google intentionally 5 times in the last few years. Mainly for local things that DDG kinda sucks at.
The default and unchangeable search engine at work is google, and I find myself often re-searching for things in DDG that I’ve accidentally hit google for.
Not that anyone asked, but I’ve been really happy using kagi as my primary search engine. Qwant is usually #2 on my list.
But if I’m trying buy something, I’ll use google if I can otherwise find it through the others.
What are your thoughts on Kagi’s deal with Brave, and the owner’s response to the backlash where he basically called it a woke backlash?
I’m on Kagi, it works pretty well, but that basically stained my perception of them. Not necessarily the fact that they’re dealing with Brave, but the response he gave to dodge the question.
Do you have some more info on this? Kagi was starting to become an appealing proposition. Brave was an obvious stink from day 1. Is there is a collaboration between the two?
Have would you say these compare to duck duck go? I switched away from google but duck duck go is just kinda ok, haven’t heard of these two
I’ve never gotten past Luke-warm with duck duck go. I don’t have anything bad to say about it, but I don’t really have any praises to sing beyond it gives us the privacy we ought have.
Duck duck go never “engaged” me as a user so I don’t have meaningful feedback to give.
That privacy point is also iffy considering they dont block trackers from Microsoft. Everybody else could just buy off this data from Microsoft instead of directly from Duckduckgo.
