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?
Use google’s verbatim mode. intitle: “index of” is also like a cheat code. In verbatim mode it gets you only documents from publicly available databases and sometimes finds you cool stuff people maybe didn’t want to share publicly
example intitle: “index of” /pdf “media literacy”