DuckDuckGo is getting worse

2024/12/31 8:54 PM (UTC -5) | tildearrow

since the day they've implemented "AI", their servers experience high load, which increases page loading times.
sometimes it takes like 30 seconds when it used to take two.

localized results are appearing, no matter whether you've enabled the country setting or not. second page and I see something very strange.

the ads are also localized and often in your language, disregarding language or country choice.
if it's not localized ads, it's always OpenArt or eBay that appears. get off my face!

item descriptions were formerly fetched from websites. this led to situations in where it wouldn't make much sense.
they tried to "improve" this by generating a supposedly natural description using AI.
the only problem is that they've actually made it worse. now every description follows the same format and looks boring!
so much power wasted on what? three lines of text that you're only gonna read for a second?!

there is a high chance that this isn't DuckDuckGo's fault though. they rely upon Bing, so perhaps Microsoft's to blame...