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?

  • none [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Dogpile

    What strange twitter. A few posts from 2026 that make no sense, and before that last post was 2015.

    Looking at their explanations, they seem like a meta search provider. So if their upstream sucks, how cna they be any good?

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      Dogpile is a search engine from 1996 whose gimmick was that they’d aggregate all the other search engines and get more results. They were the best briefly, before Google showed up and was so much better than all the other search engines that you’d never want to mix it with something else.

      I have no clue why Dogpile is good right now. Some strange accident?