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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 23:19:34 JST Luke T. Shumaker

Holy shit, #DuckDuckGo has started showing (bad!) AI summaries for search results instead of excerpts from the page. #DDG results have been going downhill for a while, but this is just unusable.
(This is inherited from Bing. DDG once had its own search results, but has just been Bing for a while now.)
What are y'all using for search engines these days?
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  Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 23:52:37 JST Luke T. Shumaker
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  @nitpicking I don't remember them ever using Google. Circa 2011 they mostly got data from Yahoo, which got fed into their own rank algorithm (i.e. while most of their data came from Yahoo, their results were not just Yahoo results; unlike today where their results are just Bing results). AIUI, the Yahoo data was minorly augmented with their own crawler.
  
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  Carl (He/Him) (nitpicking@mstdn.party)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 23:52:38 JST Carl (He/Him)
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  @lukeshu DDG never had its own crawler. They used to use Google, but switched to Bing.
  
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