Post #1748693
2026-01-28 05:59 UTC
The article already notes that
> privacy-focused users who don’t want “AI” in their search are more likely to use DuckDuckGo
But the opposite is also true. Maybe it’s not 90% to 10% elsewhere, but I’d expect the same general imbalance because some people who would answer yes to ai in a survey on a search web site don’t go to search web sites in the first place. They go to ChatGPT or whatever.
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@A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2026-01-28 06:30
It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.
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@atropa@piefed.social 2026-01-28 06:40
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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-29 03:23
Yeah, this is why polling is hard. Online polls are much more likely to be answered by people who like to answer polls than people who don't. People who use Duck Duck Go are much more likely to be privacy-focused, knowledgeable enough to use a different search engine other than the default, etc. This is also an echo chamber (The Fediverse) discussing the results of a poll on another similar echo chamber (Duck Duck Go). You won't find nearly as many people on Lemmy or Mastodon who love AI as you will in most of the world. Still, I do get the impression that it's a lot less popular than the AI companies want us to think.