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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?

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Idk if it's just me but I generally still find what I'm looking for easily enough? You have to scroll past the paragraph of AI slop now but it's still not too hard to find stuff generally. The HTML university websites will still come up if you're looking for academic stuff that doesn't exist elsewhere.

Of course there is stuff that you can't search, but it isn't really Google's fault that my private trackers don't show up on their site