Back in the day, before I just defaulted to using Google, I remember checking multiple search engines to find the thing I was looking for. You'd check Yahoo/Google/Lycos, try a couple of different phrasings, and then if that didn't work try searching on a few other search engines. Somewhere along the way, Google had won me over, because I almost always found my answer. I had stopped even considering other search engi…
Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
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#102Reminder that DDG actually has an extension (FF & Chrome) and their own Android browser available on Google Play Store and F-Droid!
and iOS browser in the App Store
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#103I use DDG primarily now. I've noticed that I often get better results for my programming queries than from Google and there's always `!g` if I don't find what I'm looking for. On a side note: anyone else think Apple will eventually buy DDG?
please no
and I'm an Apple user
Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
#104Back in the day, before I just defaulted to using Google, I remember checking multiple search engines to find the thing I was looking for. You'd check Yahoo/Google/Lycos, try a couple of different phrasings, and then if that didn't work try searching on a few other search engines. Somewhere along the way, Google had won me over, because I almost always found my answer. I had stopped even considering other search engi…
http://search.lycos.com/web/?q=+JsonAPI+parsing+performance&...
The ads look just like search results. Lycos must not be very profitable for them to pull shenanigans like that.
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#105I started using DDG as my default search engine about 6 months ago, and for 95% of the searches I do it's totally fine. I don't know why people think that DDG needs to "stop" Google; did people think that Lycos and Infoseek and Yahoo couldn't coexist back in the 90's? I think it's good that both companies have some competition from each other.
95% just isn't good enough.
95% is typically fine for me; I typically do the !g or !s thing when I don't get an answer quick enough. It is pretty rare that I don't find an answer after that.
Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet gmail and maps are slower than warm asphalt.
You can't escape Gmail because you'd lose your address, and you can't escape Maps because the alternatives suck. On the other hand if I don't like Supermarket-X, I can go to Supermarket-Y
Or your were lucky enough to start using Gmail with your own domain, when Google Apps was still free for up to 10 users, and can still use it for free.
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#107I use DDG by default. If I am not satisifed I simply prepend !g to my query. The bangs feature is really useful to me personally since it supports so many sites. https://duckduckgo.com/bang My only complaint is that it's noticeably slower than Google
id imagine speed isn't a current priority for Google as Gmail, calendar and maps have shown. It's probably a hold over from before, I'd give it a year before they roll out some improvement that allows it down.
Slowing down Google Search would have a much larger impact on revenue than slowing down Gmail or Maps.
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#108You know what can stop google? a search engine that assumes I want every word in my query, or even better a search engine that honors a string in quotes to mean these words in this order. When did google stop doing this? edit: This wouldn't stop google, it would just make that part of my life as easy as it was 10 years ago.
I'm also annoyed by this. Google tries to out-smart the user and often yields garbage or generic popular crap even when looking for something very specific. I want my quotes back too! An even bigger issue: Due to SEO and ranking benefits for popular sites, it's basically impossible to discover quality content by smaller sites/blogs via Google. Unless you go to like page 10+, where you also get a lot of irrelevant stu…
This hit me very recently when I was doing a crypto project [1] and ASN.1 DER came up. I'm german and "der" means "this" in German so google just treats "der someword" as search for "someword". So when I want to know e.g. how strings are being DER encoded, I google "DER string" and am getting results for G-string underwear and some duden.de website but nothing about ASN.1 DER strings on the first page :/. At least when you google for "DER integer" a post about ASN.1 values is the fourth result.
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#109Lot of people here are using DuckDuckGO. I tried that and some others that respect privacy. I like them but there is only one reason why I still use google.
Convenience. I do lots of movie, tv show, sports and Famous People search. Almost always I find what I am looking for directly on the google result page. If I have to open those links, I will have to go through all that js tracking and bloated sites. Google is fast. I keep track of sports scores and schedule through google search. Bing also does all of these.
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#110I'm glad DDG exists and it's my main search engine. But I'm using g! in about 50% of my queries. For very technical queries I somehow already know that google gives me better results at the top. DDG results feel more like a dice roll. Two things I also miss are "site:url" filters (dont know if ddg provides this) and date ranges, for example results within the last 3 years. Well, maybe it's possible but I have other t…
> Two things I also miss are "site:url" filters (dont know if ddg provides this) How can you miss it when you haven't tried it? Yes, ddg supports it [0] It also supports limited date ranges, like last week, last month etc [1] [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+duckdu... [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+json+site%3Astackoverflow.com&...
Well stupid me. Thanks.
site: doesn't work in my browser url bar at the start so I got used to prepend !g... I know, a terrible workaround..
Could not find a way to search within specific years which is very useful for overloaded terms. It says, they are working on it..