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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] cantstopthesignal 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically I find ChatGPT pretty good for certain types of searching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

For me, its only finding stuff thats really hard to google, like concepts or meme templates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is great for when what you're looking for is the proper search term.
If I don't know what term to google, I can describe what I'm looking for and then nudge the bot in the right direction till it spits out the term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Exactly! If I don't exactly know what I'm trying to find, its useful.