mrdown@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoDuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI featuresmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down15
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minus-squarenettie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·2 days agoDdg: Ran https://voteyesornoai.com/ Where of 175k people, 90% said No AI Offers noai.duckduckgo.com, presumably to cater to this 90% who don’t want it. Has AI first features in main product. Does not advertise noai much. So… It’s primary product goes against it’s market research It’s pushing AI, not promoting the alternative People keep promoting ddg for (2) despite (1) Just seems weird.
minus-squarefl42v@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoIirc, they explained it on techlore talks like “it"s X% of those who responded in $site, while many qactual users prefer or don’t oppose it”, or smth of that nature. Also, it appears far less than on google even with constant cookie clearing
Ddg:
Ran https://voteyesornoai.com/ Where of 175k people, 90% said No AI
Offers noai.duckduckgo.com, presumably to cater to this 90% who don’t want it.
Has AI first features in main product. Does not advertise noai much.
So…
Just seems weird.
Iirc, they explained it on techlore talks like “it"s X% of those who responded in $site, while many qactual users prefer or don’t oppose it”, or smth of that nature. Also, it appears far less than on google even with constant cookie clearing