u/ManIhatetheinternet

I was trying to get to Reddit the hard way (searching "reddit" and clicking the link), but noticed that when I just search the word "Reddit" on mobile, it pulls up the Google Play Store page for the DDG browser app. Anyone know why this is and if I'm able to disable it? Similar thing happens when searching for "help with..." where it will bring up the ddg help pages instead of processing the whole search.

I am forever fatigued by the endless number of AI-generated slop sites and blogs that clog up search results as of late. DuckDuckGo has a noai-search that does decent at filtering out these slop-blogs, but it still misses a decent amount of them. The idea I had was to simply find a way to exclude websites that were created after 2024/2025 from results as this would include most of the AI/Bot-slop sites that have been pumped out over the last year or two. For clarity, I'd want to filter out websites that were created/registered after a certain date, not content that was posted after a certain date. I know I will inevitably exclude some legitimate blogs from the results, but that's an issue I'm willing to deal with.

Example: If I search for "bike with 29in tires", I would be okay with a YouTube video posted in 2026 showing up in results, but I would not be okay with a blog site that was registered in 2025 showing up.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? Any search I've tried to do on the matter was, as expected, clogged up with ai-blogs that were only related to my search in terms of a single term match. If it's not possible, I understand, but I gotta ask.