The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.

    • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      611·
      5 months ago

      DDG is shit.

      Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?

        • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Effective search results.

          Two recent examples:

          • searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
          • searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.
          • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.