Used Google and Chrome for the past several years, but in the past several months, ads on Priuschat became so invasive, taking a hint from Mendal switched to FireFox with Ublock and DuckDuckGo. Am finding DuckDuckGo is somewhat okay, but a bit wanting. Okay, a lot wanting. Well, that's me. I am sure the Duck is great for many folk, but I do have obtuse search ideas, such as folks climbing Mt. Foraker in 1993. But Firefox with the adblock is fantastic. Would like to stay away from Google. Any search engines that "wow" you without raping you in the process?
Yeah... Google Search became unusable to me well by end of last year. DuckDuckGo and Firefox was part of my De-Google strategy last Fall. So far it works fairly well for everything except street addresses for directions and to confirm location. It's terrible at making it easy to find stuff on a map. Also its AI is good for brief simple answers but am often failing its reply and heading to Claude to get more accurate info to questions with more complexity.
