Post #2658723

2026-03-24 11:37 UTC

@jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social yes, I used ddg myself for a few years before switching largely to kagi. like you I don't love the bing connection but it's a decent free search engine, though now annoyingly you have to constantly repeat that you don't want AI "summaries", every few searches. for non-youtube video, I can't remember just now the good alternatives, blame my middle-aged post-covid brain! but follow @_elena@mastodon.social who's great on them (and much more).

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@skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-24 11:49

@mariafarrell@mastodon.social @jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social @_elena@mastodon.social Chiming in to say, there's a "no ai" version of DuckDuckGo. How long they'll keep it, no one knows, but you can set it up as a custom search engine and use it by default then. Search string URL: https: // noai.duckduckgo.com /%s Search suggestion API (optional): https: // ac.duckduckgo.com /ac/?q==%s&type=list (remove spaces)

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@cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca 2026-03-24 16:26

@mariafarrell@mastodon.social @jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social @_elena@mastodon.social Even paid users have to tell Kagi “no ai” over and over??! That feels like it would invalidate the whole value prop to me. (Or maybe I’m flashing back to “wait, why pay for fancy channels on cable only to have to sit through commercials,” because I’m just old enough for that.)

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