On DDG is “Search Assist” the same thing as “Duck.ai?” Must confess that the former can be extremely useful sometimes, as long as I check its references.
I think the most notable feature of ddg ai is that its not invasive, and as someone else has said here it can actually be useful. AI is like everything, you need to decide when it can actually add value. If i’m searching for some linux command, ai is brilliant. If i’m doing reasearch i may use ai asking for all references and then i go and check the references using search feature. Sometimes i just use search.
I’ll use duckai for fuzzy searches that are harder to find on modern search engines. Like anything I can’t summarize in a few keywords, it’s sometimes useful to have my query processed as language rather than keywords, basically. And modify the search with new expectations instead of different keywords.
It’ll still be confidently incorrect, so I’m usually just using it to find a source faster than it’d take me to peruse a couple pages of search results. Occasionally it’s been able to find some obscure shit that I otherwise would have given up on.
Being able to switch between different models is probably nice, although I haven’t used it enough to really notice much of a difference.
You used to be able to consistently get great results with " and - and similar operators, but for like a decade now I often just can’t find basic shit. I’d trade LLMs for peak search engines in a heartbeat. But since that’s not gonna happen I’ll use whichever tool works.
You should know:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
dont tell me what to do
On DDG is “Search Assist” the same thing as “Duck.ai?” Must confess that the former can be extremely useful sometimes, as long as I check its references.
I think the most notable feature of ddg ai is that its not invasive, and as someone else has said here it can actually be useful. AI is like everything, you need to decide when it can actually add value. If i’m searching for some linux command, ai is brilliant. If i’m doing reasearch i may use ai asking for all references and then i go and check the references using search feature. Sometimes i just use search.
I’ll use duckai for fuzzy searches that are harder to find on modern search engines. Like anything I can’t summarize in a few keywords, it’s sometimes useful to have my query processed as language rather than keywords, basically. And modify the search with new expectations instead of different keywords.
It’ll still be confidently incorrect, so I’m usually just using it to find a source faster than it’d take me to peruse a couple pages of search results. Occasionally it’s been able to find some obscure shit that I otherwise would have given up on.
Being able to switch between different models is probably nice, although I haven’t used it enough to really notice much of a difference.
You used to be able to consistently get great results with " and - and similar operators, but for like a decade now I often just can’t find basic shit. I’d trade LLMs for peak search engines in a heartbeat. But since that’s not gonna happen I’ll use whichever tool works.
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