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Sometimes when I can't find an answer online I'll ask the DDG AI assistant. It's disabled on my PC so I have to ask on a mobile device.
It still gives me answers that don't make sense. It's still an LLM, Siri with a tad more oomf.
Honestly I have soured on DDG.
Not specifically over search assist (even though it’s some useless OpenAI model), but its search is just… bad. I never seem to find what I want, yet it just pops up on some other engine.
Its big useful feature is the diffusion-generated image filtering, but even that is spotty at best. I wish they would lean on the spam/SEO suppression angle more.
Huh! I'll have to try out other search engines and see what works better.