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yeggon Not everyone is using AI for everything

I think what people mean by everyone varies a lot, which is why I wanted to draw attention to more specific numbers. For example, in the Datos data cited[1], on desktop 86% were using traditional search engines >10 visits/month vs. only 21% for AI chat tools. That is indeed a very significant percentage, but more than 4x less than search and (at least I) wouldn't say that ~1/5 is "everyone."

[1] https://sparktoro.com/blog/new-research-20-of-americans-use-...

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

You’re welcome!

yeggon DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

Duck it.

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Thanks!

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Thanks. On the maps, is this through a VPN?

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

FYI, we (DuckDuckGo) now have a subscription service (https://duckduckgo.com/pro) and one could always turn off ads on our search engine (https://duckduckgo.com/settings).

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Thanks, and thanks for the report. Will investigate.

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Got it, thanks for the clarification. We have been working on our own web index that should ultimately help with that.

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

That feature (Search Assist) can be turned off in the settings, and we have a noai.duckduckgo.com domain that automatically turns it off along with other AI features. That said, Search Assist just summarizes web content and does not generate its own answers, but the summary is AI generated.

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

We (DuckDuckGo) does if you add reddit to the query; that forces our reddit module to show.

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

If you mean on DuckDuckGo, we have a (relatively new) reddit module that should surface that content if you add reddit to your query.

yeggon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Just FYI, at DuckDuckGo we have a search setting to turn ads off: https://duckduckgo.com/settings

We also have a no ai version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

yeggon Apparently Google hates us now

Thank you!

yeggon Apparently Google hates us now

Sorry you feel that way, pooploop64. We are doing a complete brand refresh this year though.

yeggon Apparently Google hates us now

We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd...). But on top of that we don't get local results, knowledge graph, answers, sports, anything AI related, and many more essential modules from Bing, all of which collectively makes up a large % of the results at this point, let alone the vastly different UXs.

yeggon Apparently Google hates us now

Well, I'd love to know; as I've said in some other comments, we've changed and improved a lot in the last couple years and so feel free to send me feedback.

yeggon Google changes its search box

Our results have continually improved, and would be happy to take your feedback (email is in my profile) if you give it another try.

yeggon Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

Do extensions not work there as well? In any case you could set it yourself as default search: noai.duckduckgo.com

yeggon Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

We now have an official noai Chrome Extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/duckduckgo-no-ai-se...

yeggon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

This hasn't been our experience; can you please reach out to me with specific examples? My email is in my profile.

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

Thank you

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

Yes, we have image search. If you do a search, just click on images. We also recently added the ability to filter out a large portion of AI-generated images.

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

We're still supportive, donating to the Perl foundation the last two years: https://duckduckgo.com/donations

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

Back of the envelope for you: Google does about $200B in search revenue, about half in the U.S. (so $100B). We have about 3% markt share in the U.S., which would equate to about $3B in Google monetization. Now, we make way way less than Google per search, in large part due to our privacy policy, but 10x less is still on the order of 300M per year. So, you can see how we can easily take in more than 36M per year.

Also, NAD is a very serious review process as NAD refers any unsubstantiated claims directly to the FTC. Lots of evidence, vetted by a third-party.

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

We offer Email Protection: https://duckduckgo.com/email

It isn't full email, but removes trackers in your email before it gets sent to you, which is the most privacy-invasive part of email. More info at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protectio... and

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

Ads are optoinal and private; you can turn ads off in the settings if you want. Per our privacy policy: "Viewing ads on DuckDuckGo Search is anonymous, like the rest of our search results (as described above)." More info at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-....

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

We monitor closely and if something is off then we correct it. If you have particular examples in mind right now, please share them with me so I can look into them.

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

It's neither, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259466 I just made.

If you see results missing, I'd be happy to look into them. My email is in my profile.

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

Human traffic really shouldn't be seeing that -- if you want to email me I can try to sort it out to improve our systems.

yeggon Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

We do, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259412 -- that said, I take the point and will circle up with the team.