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New comment by yegg in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

yegg — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:48:05 +0000

I think what people mean by everyone varies a lot, which is why I wanted to draw attention to more specific numbers. For example, in the Datos data cited[1], on desktop 86% were using traditional search engines >10 visits/month vs. only 21% for AI chat tools. That is indeed a very significant percentage, but more than 4x less than search and (at least I) wouldn't say that ~1/5 is "everyone."

[1] https://sparktoro.com/blog/new-research-20-of-americans-use-...

Not everyone is using AI for everything

yegg — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527700

Points: 512

# Comments: 546

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:39:11 +0000

You’re welcome!

New comment by yegg in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

yegg — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:40:01 +0000

Duck it.

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:55:50 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:55:43 +0000

Thanks. On the maps, is this through a VPN?

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:33:30 +0000

FYI, we (DuckDuckGo) now have a subscription service (https://duckduckgo.com/pro) and one could always turn off ads on our search engine (https://duckduckgo.com/settings).

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:36:02 +0000

Thanks, and thanks for the report. Will investigate.

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:11:05 +0000

Got it, thanks for the clarification. We have been working on our own web index that should ultimately help with that.

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:55:23 +0000

That feature (Search Assist) can be turned off in the settings, and we have a noai.duckduckgo.com domain that automatically turns it off along with other AI features. That said, Search Assist just summarizes web content and does not generate its own answers, but the summary is AI generated.

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:53:30 +0000

We (DuckDuckGo) does if you add reddit to the query; that forces our reddit module to show.

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:52:19 +0000

If you mean on DuckDuckGo, we have a (relatively new) reddit module that should surface that content if you add reddit to your query.

New comment by yegg in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

yegg — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:52:41 +0000

Just FYI, at DuckDuckGo we have a search setting to turn ads off: https://duckduckgo.com/settings

We also have a no ai version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

New comment by yegg in "Apparently Google hates us now"

yegg — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:39:52 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by yegg in "Apparently Google hates us now"

yegg — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:51:33 +0000

Sorry you feel that way, pooploop64. We are doing a complete brand refresh this year though.

New comment by yegg in "Apparently Google hates us now"

yegg — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:50:47 +0000

We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd...). But on top of that we don't get local results, knowledge graph, answers, sports, anything AI related, and many more essential modules from Bing, all of which collectively makes up a large % of the results at this point, let alone the vastly different UXs.

New comment by yegg in "Apparently Google hates us now"

yegg — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:19 +0000

Well, I'd love to know; as I've said in some other comments, we've changed and improved a lot in the last couple years and so feel free to send me feedback.

New comment by yegg in "Google changes its search box"

yegg — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:05:04 +0000

Our results have continually improved, and would be happy to take your feedback (email is in my profile) if you give it another try.

New comment by yegg in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

yegg — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:53:37 +0000

Do extensions not work there as well? In any case you could set it yourself as default search: noai.duckduckgo.com

New comment by yegg in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

yegg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:35:25 +0000

We now have an official noai Chrome Extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/duckduckgo-no-ai-se...