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Google on PC, DDG on the phone. I use an extension on Firefox to be able to view images directly and reverse search images on Google Images since they removed that feature. None of those extensions worked for Firefox Android, so I've just made DDG my main search engine there.
What's the name of this extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-google-i...
DuckDuckGo. I went back and forth between DDG and Google a number of times before I managed to stick with DDG. I rarely go to Google at this point, only in cases where the search is extremely specific and it really needs Google’s omnipresent eye. DDG’s results have gotten a lot better in the last year or so and the !bangs are super handy. Meanwhile Google is experimenting tirelessly with AI that ‘corrects’ my searche…
Hopefully someone from DDG will see this because I have no clue where to send feedback.
DuckDuckGo. I went back and forth between DDG and Google a number of times before I managed to stick with DDG. I rarely go to Google at this point, only in cases where the search is extremely specific and it really needs Google’s omnipresent eye. DDG’s results have gotten a lot better in the last year or so and the !bangs are super handy. Meanwhile Google is experimenting tirelessly with AI that ‘corrects’ my searche…
DuckDuckGo. I went back and forth between DDG and Google a number of times before I managed to stick with DDG. I rarely go to Google at this point, only in cases where the search is extremely specific and it really needs Google’s omnipresent eye. DDG’s results have gotten a lot better in the last year or so and the !bangs are super handy. Meanwhile Google is experimenting tirelessly with AI that ‘corrects’ my searche…
I was using DDG on iPhone to escape Googel AMP pages, but now both !g and !ge take me to www.google.com instead of encrypted.google.com. Hopefully someone from DDG will see this because I have no clue where to send feedback.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7631341?p=encryp...
I usually start my searches on DDG, and move on by modifying the same search query with a !s prefix (for StartPage) or a !g prefix (for Google). DuckDuckGo's date search is comparatively limited. DDG still isn't adequate for me for tech related searches, though it's gotten better over time (StartPage, which is a proxy for Google, and Google itself, are much better). Image search also has more refinement options on Google than on the other two.
I also use DDG to search Wikipedia (!w prefix) and IMDB (!imdb prefix, which is a bit long to type though).
DDG has a bang search keyword for almost every site you may want to search on. [1]
Unfortunately, I think your results will be heavily skewed in a place like Hacker News, which may or may not be what you want. So far, half of the replies are about DuckDuckGo, which doesn't even account for 0.1% of all searches globally. Personally, I've switched to DDG about 2 weeks ago and it's been pretty much seamless. This depends mostly on what I search for; if it's something very specific, Google will provide…
Google. I've tried to use DDG several times in the past, and while the product works well, Google has the "familiarity effect" baked into its search. I've been conditioned for nearly two decades by Google's layout and visual cues. At a moment when I'm uncertain of something and am searching for an answer, the last thing I want is to be uncertain/unfamiliar with the search tool itself. Those stacking of anxieties, how…
This can only change the look of the site by using the content on the page, but cannot provide missing features. Whether that's a UX improvement or not will depend on the style and the user.
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
[2]: https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=duckduckgo