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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
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TechSpotDuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold outDuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
DuckDuckGo should apply this lesson to their search engine!
DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AIDuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.Replying to @notabot@piefed.social
I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in
Replying to @Godort@lemmy.ca
AI is the future of search and I dont see anyway that changes. The user experience of AI search is way to good, average users love the summary at the top of their search. Almost every report i’ve seen shows over 50% of people using AI for search and that tracks with what I see in people i know in real life.
I’m a DDG user and I do not want them to handicap themselves to pass a purity test.
Almost every report i’ve seen shows over 50% of people using AI for search
Because it’s not possible to search without there being an AI summary
Replying to @YeahToast@aussie.zone
No these are not reports that count someone viewing an AI summary on google as using AI for search.
then how do they count it? home else could someone be counting “AI usage in the search engine”?
Replying to @WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
I checked again to get a more up to date report and so that we actually have something to go off instead of my memory of some random reports. Pew finds 50% of people use chatbots and the most common use is searching for information. Also in the report the have a stat for reading AI summaries at the top of a search and that is 60% say that have, 10% dont know and 30% dont read it. pewresearch.org/…/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-…
So its fair to say I was wrong and its not over 50% but its close to 50%.
Then these people aren’t using DDG anyway, so why should DDG be trying to appeal to them?
Replying to @kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
How do you know? Im sure 1% do