If you'd like to remove DuckDuckGo's AI features from a search, and get pre-slop results, try this:
(replace %s with your search term)
It disables all the AI features and it limits the search from 1/1/2001 to the end of 2021, right before ChatGPT came online and the slop began.
I know this means later info isn't searched, but it's getting harder these days to find new content.
@futurebird @lnlyisol What about trying:
cute "ant" stickers
?
Works on #duckduckgo every time 
OK, so I gave Kagi another shot (against DDG).
The first search term was "nintendo switch 2 price uk" and they were kind of the same - Kagi showed Nintendo first while DDG showed currys first...
The second search was "timestamp now javascript" and kagi did a lot better here - MDN was first, DDG's MDN was 3rd, Stack Overflow was no 1. Shame.
But searching for "uk tarrifs trump" was an odd one.
In your experience, which of these breaks apps/websites the most? (For example, the app freezes or crashes.)
Duck Duck Go is garbage, I’ve tried to stick with it, but I really need something better. Ugh. Not going to use G, tho.
I disabled #AI assist on #DuckDuckGo, but even when I do, I still get a bunch of search results that point me to 100% AI-generated web pages. Nowadays anyone can just fuzz search engines like #Google for lists of commonly searched queries, then generate slop responses to these queries, then cache the slop, and then use shady SEO techniques to get these slop pages to show up at the top of search results. And this is what I have been getting from a lot of my web searches lately, content from slop shops.
A part of me thinks companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may themselves be investing in these shady slop shops to deliberately make traditional search engines useless, which would “incentivize” people to use #LLM -based AI like Gemini or #ChatGPT more often, though that is purely speculation on my part.
If you had asked my 20 years ago that the #Internet of the future would rapidly devolve and become increasingly useless as time went on, I would have dismissed you as a paranoid crackpot. Here we are in the future and I still can hardly believe how shitty technology is becoming.
@RaphaelWimmer it's called #DuckDuckGo #InstantAnswers, m8!
Update on this...
It's going great, honestly. This is the best experience I've had with all of my #DuckDuckGo experiments. I've made DDG the default search on every one of my devices and it's been fast and accurate every time.
If you also dip your toe in every once in a while, it's never been better IMO.
Was trying a duckduckgo search for a restaurant in town, and I clicked on a link to read it, then came back to the search results. Suddenly a bunch of links disappeared and the first two links were now tripadvisor.
I selected hide site from these results and immediately a tripadvisor link from another url (different country) pops up. I kind of kept going and hiding about 15 results and new tripadvisor links kept popping up. This went on until "Search query entered was too long. Please shorten and try again."
So is this a bing-underneath thing, or direct enshittification of duckduckgo?
This is while using uBlockOrigin, but that didn't help, I didn't see any way that the ads differed from the normal links either.
Someone has decorated my local post box with #GooglyEyes. Are we still allowed to call them googly eyes or will the search police insist that we call them #DuckDuckGo-y eyes? #postcrossing
dear #DuckDuckGo or other search engine: I want a little button next to every #search result that lets me exclude it from all search results for me, personally, forever. With an option to block the entire domain.
I'm definitely looking at #pinterest but there's just a lot of #AI slop out there. Tons of AI-generated websites. Even without the AI search "helper" things, I get a lot of shit that is just really low quality.
I don't think I see this witih DDG (there is a "give feedback" button with unclear effects on my personal search experience) and I'm not familiar with many other search engines now (except google and no). But if there's something out there that already has this functionality, I'll be happy to check it out and happy for the referral.
Which non-big tech search engine do you use and why? #search #searchengine #ecosia #qwant #kagi #duckduckgo #mojeek #brave
Dear #DuckDuckGo
When I search for information on the Crown Of Thorns Starfish, I do not want to get a top result suggesting I can buy this spiky, venomous, coral-reef-eating species on eBay.
Duck Duck Go is showing me ads at the top of the results. And uBlock origin isnt blocking it. So fuck DDG.
Alternativen zur Google Suche
Vielen fällt der Umstieg auf andere Suchmaschinen schwer und ich verstehe das Problem nicht.
https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/03/27/alternativen-zur-google-suche/
@dangillmor check out the #DuckDuckGo browser. It's a delight.
I tried to search for this on duckduckgo (bing) and it returned nothing but stories about Harris snubbing Vance. All of them.
Duckduckgo/bing are ALL IN for Trump the searches getting double plus good propaganda.
Click the thumbs down on the question "Was this helpful?" under the generated short and Select "Dislike AI". Maybe if enough do they will at least not turn it on by default!? I doubt it, but...
into bean pâté 
