DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search | TechCrunch
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Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.
  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Good, fuck Google and their agentic bullshit! I hate it so much, I stopped using the majority of Google services once I saw the directly they were going in. It’s pretty nasty. Glad that DuckDuckGo is giving people a way out of gassed up LLMs (despite drinking from a similarly deranged well as Google).

      • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
        2·
        18 hours ago

        DuckDuckGo has a similar ambition to make LLMs fetch, this is what I meant. Google is being dangerously extra about it, threatening the very existence of a web that we interact with in a sane manner (unless you use a different search engine).