I’ve used DuckduckGo for at least a decade. When they started embedding their little AI summary thing at the top of the chat I knew it was coming. But recently, it seems when I search anything I get tons of the same slop, SEO pumped, AI generated info pages. There was a time when I would at least stumble upon an old HTML article from a university or something. Everything sucks now. Do they even make encyclopedia books anymore?
I know it’s been long coming, but this has been something I’ve noticed in the past few months. It’s impossible to find ANY human-written sources, stuff that had at least 30 seconds of a person’s time. I’ll struggle through 10, 20 even 30 pages before giving up. I’d love to know if there’s any way to exclude that stuff.