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I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
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[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don't like Google, but damned if I'm not used to it.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

If you use ddg you can redirect any search to google by adding a space ans !g to the end of the search term.

Annoyingly, but works on the cases where google does better.

[–] PhatInferno@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

I love ddg's bangs for me who mainly uses it for media its so nice being able to !yt whatever i want to search for, vs going to the site and doing it

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Lots of other places too (13.5k of them), they're called '!bangs'. !w Wikipedia !r spezit etc.

Full list here https://duckduckgo.com/bangs