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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by dredmorbius »

Freak_NL wrote: post #121
benbenhu wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And don't forget to use the bangs that can allow you to check other engines results fast if you need. For people afraid of getting off google, you can always search something like '!g my-search', it works the same for youtube(!yt), google image(!gi), or even hackernews(!hn) And of course the best bang is the 'I am feeling lucky' one (!), i.e.: 'hackernews !'

!ud → Urban Dictionary (what do you mean, she's 'office cute'?) !wen → Wikipedia English !w.. → Wikipedia (two letter language code, e.g., 'nl') !wikt Wiktionary So many useful bangs.

    !hn does something or another

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by SubiculumCode »

grimgrin wrote: post #348

Those who use DDG, do you miss dates in results? Having a date present definitely helps me think about the results: https://www.google.com/search?q=dcss+branch+order https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dcss+branch+order This isn't a case where I _know_ I only want 2017 results, and so I do the syntax to filter it down automatically. I want all results, but I want to be aware of the timeline of whatever I'm going to click. But…

If that isn't available in DuckDuckGo they should definitely reconsider. I use the date pretty often...though sometimes it seems spoofed.

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Post by deusum »

wickawic wrote: post #5
majewsky wrote: post #2

Might be an interesting article, but that position:fixed footer with ongoing animations is just too atrocious.

On mobile it asks for an email in a persistent footer that takes up 1/3 of the screen. When you type a fake email (there is no way to remove it) it brings up another footer asking if you would like to have such a footer on your own website ( also unremovable). Thank God for reader mode.

Didn't get any of that in Firefox Focus

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Post by i_cant_speel »

Kiro wrote: post #338
fredsir wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI: For that exact query, DDG shows Children of Men as the top two results.

For me it's #6. Another movie called Baby Mama is #1.

Why would it be different for two different people if there isn't any tracking going on?

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by i_cant_speel »

zizek23 wrote: post #65

The thing with Duckduckgo is the choice has to be ideological or you will do a search again on Google again just to ensure you are not missing out. This is Google marketing and brand perception at work because Google results of late, 3 years, have been unimpressive and you have to sift through pages of useless links and content to find any relevant information beyond the usual suspects one already knows, so their int…

I have to say, I go to the second page of Google search results maybe once every couple months. I'm not sure what you are searching for but that has not been my experience at all. It seems to always be getting better.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by spektom »

spektom wrote: post #342

I'd like to act as devil's advocate for a bit. Showing ads according to a search term is totally possible, but having no attribution attached to a "click" or to an "impression" give very little advantage for the marketer who is paying for the ads. There are cost models allowing to pay for the actual action (like installing an advertised application) not just for clicks or views. Re-targeting people who had expressed…

People, who downvoted my comment - care to explain? Does downvote button on HN compare to "I don't like what you're saying"?

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Post by marcosdumay »

jxcl wrote: post #298
graphitezepp wrote: post #175

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I only miss google as a DDG user when DDG doesn't have a tool google has to give you an automatic result, i.e. when trying to look up some unit conversion ratio like lb to kg. But when you know that is what you want there is always !g.

Do you know about the `units` command? $ units Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2017-08-24 2980 units, 109 prefixes, 96 nonlinear units You have: 5 lbs You want: kg * 2.2679619 / 0.44092452 You have: 100 furlongs You want: meters * 20116.8 / 4.9709695e-05 You have: 100 miles/hour You want: meters/second * 44.704 / 0.022369363 You have: 2 kiloisraelnewshekels You want: picodollars * 5.5271109e+14 / 1.…

I like `qalc` a lot:

    > 5 pounds to kg
    5 * pound = approx. 2.2679619 kg

    > x^2 + 8*x = 4
    ((x^2) + (8 * x)) = 4 = approx. x = 0.47213595 or x = -8.472136
And so on.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by inputcoffee »

grimgrin wrote: post #348

Those who use DDG, do you miss dates in results? Having a date present definitely helps me think about the results: https://www.google.com/search?q=dcss+branch+order https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dcss+branch+order This isn't a case where I _know_ I only want 2017 results, and so I do the syntax to filter it down automatically. I want all results, but I want to be aware of the timeline of whatever I'm going to click. But…

A date is crucial, even for a programming related task. There are probably people who, at this very moment, are looking up Django 1.0 documentation right now and can't get the example to work because their system installs the second to last version.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by i_cant_speel »

djsumdog wrote: post #107

Does anyone remember how back in the day, we had Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile .. a whole host of search engines. You'd go to two or three to get an idea of what was out there. People had different indexes and there were a lot of players. Today, it's just Google. I've been using DDG for a few years, but about 1/3 of the time I add an !g because I don't find the results I need on DDG. The cost of entry to the search m…

While it would be nice if the barrier to entry was lower to enter the search space, I feel like if it's easier to get in Google will just be able to do more with what they have.
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