misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoI Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermathaftermath.siteexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1328arrow-down115
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minus-squareTheTetrapod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down4·6 months agoI tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don’t like Google, but damned if I’m not used to it.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoIf you use ddg you can redirect any search to google by adding a space ans !g to the end of the search term. Annoyingly, but works on the cases where google does better.
minus-squareCheradenine@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoLots of other places too (13.5k of them), they’re called ‘!bangs’. !w Wikipedia !r spezit etc. Full list here https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
minus-squarePhatInferno@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI love ddg’s bangs for me who mainly uses it for media its so nice being able to !yt whatever i want to search for, vs going to the site and doing it
I tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don’t like Google, but damned if I’m not used to it.
If you use ddg you can redirect any search to google by adding a space ans !g to the end of the search term.
Annoyingly, but works on the cases where google does better.
Lots of other places too (13.5k of them), they’re called ‘!bangs’. !w Wikipedia !r spezit etc.
Full list here https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
I love ddg’s bangs for me who mainly uses it for media its so nice being able to !yt whatever i want to search for, vs going to the site and doing it