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Can I ask why you’re still using Google to search at this point?


There are ppl that depend on me for tech support. What search engine should I install on their phones?


duckduckgo: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+configure+arducopter+g...

Optionally with a custom CSS rule to block the starting video block: [data-layout="videos"]


Regular DDG doesn't seem much better than Google: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+configure+arducopter+gps

AI summary and videos dominating it.


AI summaries are actually rather good, in the general case. I know they take away traffic from source sites, but they work well for search users.

Videos, on the other hand, are a cancer.


> AI summaries are actually rather good, in the general case.

The google ones for me seem to be talking about something unrelated to what I'm looking for a significant percent of the time because it interprets it as a much more popular concept that looks like my query if you squint very hard. Other times it pulls up seo-spam tier answers that are plainly wrong.


The best free and mainstream option would be duckduckgo at the moment in my opinion.




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