Quick Tip: How to Turn off DuckDuckGo’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist Feature for Search

Screenshot of DuckDuckGo AI Assist settings showing all features turned off.

If you use DuckDuckGo as your search engine, be aware the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist feature is turned on by default.

For people who don’t want AI used in their DuckDuckGo search results, you’ll need to turn AI Assist off in each of your browsers (desktop and mobile) as well as in the DuckDuckGo app.

Which is what I did.

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How to Add “No Search Results Found” in the Twenty Twenty-Two Theme

Twenty-Twenty Two theme About page highlighting navigation, with text of "The Hatchery: a blog about my adventures in bird watching" with a gorgeous illustration of a black, blue, copper, and white breasted bird.

When you use a WordPress site search form to look for a term or phrase and no results are found, you expect a message like “No search results found” to display.

But you don’t expect to get a blank page.

Which has you wondering what happened.

  • Did the search work?
  • Or did something go wrong on the site?
  • Do I need to submit the search again?
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Share Your Favorite Plugin: Media Library Assistant

My favorite WordPress plugins displayed in grid layout.

As you publish content on your WordPress website, you’re adding images to your Media Library. Over time, your Media Library will grow in size to hundreds, if not thousands of images.

What happens when you want to search for that image of the WordCamp Denver conference you attended last year?

Or the screenshot of a particularly challenging accessibility issue in an application? Continue reading Share Your Favorite Plugin: Media Library Assistant