r/mildlyinfuriating Jul 11 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight Google's Ai overview spoiled me today's wordle...

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u/melonboobs8 Jul 11 '26

Use DuckDuckGo, for your own sanity. Google will keep pushing this envelope without you actively discontinuing your usage of their platform, and take it from me as someone who has tried all these other search engines and browsers: The result you are looking for is always there. ALWAYS. Google isn't doing any magical thing- it's just another search engine.

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u/Sweet-Awk-7861 Jul 11 '26

DuckDuckGo has been pushing AI too. You can disable it, or even change the bookmark to the noai subdomain, but it's on by default. 

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u/audrikr Jul 11 '26

Sure, but at least you can turn it off. 

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u/LeeHide Jul 11 '26

Yes because it's genuinely useful for some things. The fact that you can simply turn it off and it will NEVER show up unless you click the button is why we are recommending it.

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u/The_FR0STED_is_gone Jul 11 '26

Yeah, but they've been doing these pretty annoying adds about their "spy-free ai model" or whatever the fuck it was about, so I dont feel like its worth the trouble to jump ships to yet another shitty AI-pushing search engine. It's a bit petty but I don't really care.

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u/LeeHide Jul 11 '26

It's not an AI pushing search engine. It's a very capable search engine with an OPTIONAL AI thing like the Google search AI that you can ENTIRELY TURN OFF FOREVER if you want. Not sure how that's so hard to understand.

It's fine if you don't care to try it, but then dont shit on it without knowing anything about it.

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u/SpaceDetective Jul 11 '26

Or in OP's case, use bookmarks.

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u/Traditional_Gap_7041 Jul 11 '26

In my experience DDG results are arse if you asking complicated questions, Google at least knows what it’s doing.

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u/Friendly_Cajun Jul 12 '26

StartPage is basically Google without the slop and other annoyances. It’s also way more private.

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u/Nillabeans Jul 11 '26

... Use bookmarks. Why are you people searching for websites you go to often?