Comment by iamerroragent | Hacker News Reader

Comment by iamerroragent | Hacker News Reader

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This is DuckDuckGo though. Here it's apparently just bringing you the relevant information from a Wikipedia page and showing you that.

Personally this a great feature for me.

In my mind, AI for search is one where there's an attempt to answer (with source to back that answer) and also provide an efficient list of relevant links to other sites that it believes is related or part of what I was searching for. There's nothing really 'hidden' more so than before in my opinion.

The test for AI is will users find results better and faster than before. Which so far seems to be yes as far as I am aware.

However I understand where you are coming from with the Chat-GPT interface just spitting out a result and completely obviscating where it came from.

Yes, but it's sifting through data in the background and making the decision for you whether you ought to be able to see certain things. Traditional search engine do that sort of but not to the extent AI does. AI will make the decision for you on whether something meets the criteria of being a "good source".

So it is the extent of what you 'don't see' or 'don't understand' going on that you have an issue with rather than the new technology/software.

I've noticed, and others have here as well, that Google results have progressively gotten worse. I don't see a lot of what they are doing in the background either (some of it is already AI) but I know for certain that my results have increasly become more revenue generating than what I wanted (without adding more specific search terms). So AI isn't what exactly has made Search bad.

I suggest spending more time learning how something works. I've found in my experience it helps alleviate the feeling of anxiety I would get when I didn't know what was going on.

DuckDckGo (DDG) seems like they're being transparent on how they're implementing this and how it's going to be used. You're still being given a list of websites and not just raw answer output so I don't see how it's hiding anything more than is already.

As long as they continue to do that and it produces noticable improvement in results it's a win in my book.

Edit Here is what they're doing:

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/

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