DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results

Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by ianstormtaylor on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:46AM (#35684071)

Not saying you're wrong, but they grandfathered me on the $10/mo plan with the new pricing changes, and that would cover your usage. I think on the new plans 30 searches a day would come out to $13/month.

I know it may sound like a lot (and definitely is a lot for some folks), but when I think about it as literally being the window to a huge amount of knowledge I take in, the fact that it's way less than Adobe products, and similar to things like GitHub, Figma, Notion, Airtable, etc. feels pretty reasonable.

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Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by easygenes on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:54AM (#35684124)

I've tried Kagi as primary search for a few months and used DDG as primary for a long time before that. Recently I default to using phind.com. Don't think they'll be able to stay free forever, but as it is the mix of free access to GPT-4 and the focus on being developer-friendly makes it feel much better than alternatives (perplexity.ai being the closest competitor, but not feeling quite right for me).

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Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by freediver on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:01AM (#35684461)

Curious can you 'grep the web' with it and how do you handle shopping, image/videos/news/maps types of searches?

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Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by easygenes on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:03AM (#35684481)

For developers, I should also mention Bing Chat seems to be in the lead for asking questions like, "In this <github repo link>, can you tell me what this function does <function name>?" (or insert your own question you might ask another developer about some repo). I suspect this is because Microsoft has already done the chunking/embedding/vector-storage for all of Github and Bing Chat is querying a vector database for info about the repo, whereas the other GPT-search-chat offerings aren't there yet.

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Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by kkwtflz on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:56AM (#35688409)

> What AI model are you?

> ANSWER

> I am an AI language model powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo. My primary purpose is to understand and generate human-like text based on the input I receive. I can perform various tasks, such as answering questions, providing explanations, and even writing code snippets.

Looks like it's not on v4 yet.

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Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by easygenes on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:38PM (#35696273)

The "Expert" toggle switches it to GPT-4. You can tell by how slow it responds then (note that I've seen it switch over to turbo when you ask followup questions recently).

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Re:DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results by OkayPhysicist on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:01PM (#35691675)

It's worth pointing out that the "window to a huge amount of knowledge" feature isn't really what you're paying for. The question isn't "is access to a search engine worth $10 a month to me?" (probably yes), it's "Is the delta in functionality with DDG/Google/Bing/Ask Jeeves worth $10 a month to me?" (maybe).

It's a pretty big problem in internet tech, actually. Ad revenue has poisoned the well, creating a situation where it's really, really hard to create a compelling product that isn't based on advertising, because you end up having to compete with "free" alternatives. Thus from a consumer's perspective the cost of the product needs to be in the added functionality over the alternatives, since they see your base functionality's perceived value as $0.

It's gotten to a point where I don't think it's fixable at a grassroots level.

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