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Duckduckgo is not only privacy centric but now it has better results than Google. Google is floundering in every area of their business lately. Pixel phones still have a very small niche share of the market, their search is garbage, chat gpt is a better AI than bard by miles, and their productivity suite is just as readily replaced by libreoffice or office 365.
The only thing Google has anymore is YouTube.
And YouTube is completely unusable without paying or adblock. Letting literal scams market on their platform
Just wanted to chime in and say that I am super happy with my Pixel 7 so far. Easily one of the best phones out there, especially considering the price.
Android is, on the whole, an incredible OS/ecosystem Google has spun up, but at the end of the day, they still need people to use their web services to remain profitable... and primarily, that's Search.
Its been very hit and miss for me. The engines appear to be optimized differently, but I won't say the DDG results are "good". I just get better results when I search both engines than when I rely on one over the other indefinitely.
It does very simple things very well, where as Bard just kinda fumbles everything that isn't geared to its niche knowledge set. But they're both... not great. ChatGPT still hallucinates routinely. Its output is often verbose to the point of repetition. Anything current-events related or otherwise subjective is... dicey at best.
Its the best of the worst, but 9 times out of 10 I'll get a better result fishing for answers on Reddit or a topic-specific Discord or a bog-standard search engine if I put in a good fifteen minutes of serious investigation. I'm just weighing that against the instant-but-substandard answer I can get from AI.
Although they're nowhere near marketshare of Apple they definitely haven't had failure in the Pixels. Every generation I notice more and more people using them rather than the previous niche audience. They're probably the best all-around Android phones out there for average people, and with the standard pixel 8 being $550 reasonably good value compared to their competition for all but heavy mobile gamers.
They're still a very niche device with the largest adoption in Canada at only ~5%. https://www.statista.com/chart/25463/popularity-of-google-smartphones/
Duckduckgo is a frontend for Bing.