I've been using duckduckgo for a while but their new "Feature" of an AI assist was the final straw to try startpage.com
Are there any other good ones?
Now when I use DuckDuckGo to search the internet for casual information I get a special box of info called “Assist”. At the bottom of the box: “Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies.”
What the? May contain inaccuracies? Why do it then? Just to waste my time?
What is this brave new world of possibly inaccurate information & what do I do about it?
Edit: Thanks to Mark C @markc568 for the solution: “Clivk the gear and you can turn it off for all searches”. It worked! Mark C is my hero!
#MayContainInaccuracies #DuckDuckGo #InternetSearch #InformationSearch #ArtificialIdiot #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses
Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619768
Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
https://kagi.com/
https://kagi.com/pricing
Thoughts about Kagi search engine : privacy
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1bmubkd/thoughts_about_kagi_search_engine/
Duck Duck Go is garbage, I’ve tried to stick with it, but I really need something better. Ugh. Not going to use G, tho.
I Quit Google for ChatGPT/other AI Search: I’m Not Going Back
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-search-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-6ac749d9
WSJ, ugh! Non-paywalled: https://archive.fo/hTPST
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481261
Google searches (ALL ads-for search) SUCK!. Shopping websites too !! 🤬
I asked the author, and indeed these are different, and she sent me a link to a page explaining the differences, a page which has, as its title, 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2: what are the differences'.
A properly functioning search engine would have placed this page at the top of the results. But in our current world of AI-influenced search, this page didn't show up.
There has been much discussion about how poor search results have become, and I just experienced it today. In editing some text from a colleague, I noticed two very similar phrases mentioned in separate paragraphs as though they might refer to different things, but it wasn't entirely clear. So I did a search (on a major engine) of the type 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2', and all that came up were pages about phrase 2.
(toot continues)
Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)
Dianora (Diane Bruce)
Su_G
N-gated Hacker News
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Aaron 
🖖
Michael Meckler