DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

In response to Google’s changes, many have begun defecting to DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused alternative that has never been able to break past Google’s dominance, accounting for only around 2% of the U.S. search market. “Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out,” Weinberg said Tuesday in a statement, referring to Google’s Search overhaul. “As a result, their results are getting worse, not better. We want to be the place that puts users in charge and allows them to decide how much or how little AI they want.”

For anyone who made the switch, the difference is noticeable.

#Kagi #Search #deGoogle

Haha, how fitting: After reading headlines about #Google users fleeing the AI slop summaries fed to them, I wanted to get a feeling of https://google.com how bad it is, but well... only to be presented with a CAPTCHA.

So glad I am able to afford to pay for great search results that just work @kagihq . However, great search shouldn't become a privilege.

#Search #Google #Kagi

How to Make xt850 Match xt 850

Manticore 23.0.0 버전부터 bigram_delimiter와 digit-aware bigram_index 모드를 활용해 'xt850' 같은 붙여 쓴 검색어가 'xt 850'과 매칭되도록 지원한다. 이는 제품명 검색 시 사용자 입력과 인덱스 토큰화 간 불일치를 해결하는 기능으로, second_numeric과 second_has_digit 두 가지 모드를 제공해 숫자 전용 또는 혼합 알파벳-숫자 모델명을 효과적으로 처리한다. 기존에 필드 중복이나 커스텀 전처리 없이도 자연스러운 검색 결과를 얻을 수 있어, 제품 카탈로그 검색 엔진 구축에 유용하다.

https://medium.com/@s_nikolaev/how-to-make-xt850-match-xt-850-2175e701fbfe

#manticore #search #tokenization #bigram #productsearch

Everyone's cheering users for rejecting AI search by switching to DuckDuckGo. Ask AI is right on the search bar on the homepage, the DDG app Has AI in its official name. There is a no-AI option--on a subdomain most may never find. They didn't reject AI. They rejected Google and no choice. That's a real and meaningful distinction — it's just not the one being celebrated.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-escape-that-wasnt

#google #duckduckgo #search #ai #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #googleio #kagi #searxng #blog

I'm still thinking about my "community" search engine, xobaque and wondering how to stick to some self-imposed design criteria (no crawling, no logins) and still make it more useful.

For example, would it make sense to provide a list of search buddies and forward queries to those other sites, merging the results? Scoring is probably going to be bonkers because each instance scores the articles independently and then we mix it all up. Does a search result exchange format exist? Or would it make more sense to merge at the HTML level? Looking at Wikipedia's federated search page I see even more challenges listed (pagination, timeouts).

More fundamentally, perhaps, is the notion that each community might already have a focus (all the blogs on Planet Emacslife focus on Emacs) and therefore what would be the benefit of also searching indieblog.page? Of course, people blog about Emacs without being listed on Planet Emacslife, so in this case, there's a potential benefit. But what if we search Planet Emacslife (about Emacs) and the RPG Planet (about role-playing games). Oh, I know a nerd or two who's into both, but really, is there a benefit to be had in this situation? That seems to point to an asymmetrical setup:

Planet Emacslife includes indieblog.page;
RPG Planet includes indieblog.page;
indieblog.page includes both Planet Emacslife and RPG Planet;
but crucially Planet Emacslife does not include RPG Planet;
and RPG Planet does not include Planet Emacslife.
🤔

Any other ideas? I'd prefer not to replicate the search indexes, to be honest.

31M for Planet Emacslife
770M for RPG Planet
901M for indieblog.page

#search #xobaque

Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

ChatGPT is showing more prominent links and the result is more referral traffic and better engagement on that traffic to sites https://www.seroundtable.com/chatgpt-links-up-referrals-41383.html via @similarweb

#chatgpt #openai #ai #search #publishers #traffic

DuckDuckGo reports a surge in installs after Google put more AI into Search

https://www.engadget.com/2181849/duckduckgo-installs-surge-after-google-ai-search/

#Tech #Privacy #Search