Startpage.com is better and has better privacy and search results
You can use !sp from DDG.
Or just !s :)
Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
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Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#42Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#43Their search results are not relevant enough for me, unless I know exactly what I need (for example searching the brand name) I usually can't find what I am looking for.
I hate to admit it but Google seems to be much more friendly when it comes to search queries in common english, "What is the best lunch spot in city-name?"
Until DDG can provide better results I don't see a mass migration, even with all of Google's privacy problems.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#44Startpage.com is better and has better privacy and search results
Why do you think startpage has better privacy?
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#45Why would I use another AMERICAN / Western search engine? I personally feel we would be better off using Yandex (Russian) or Baidu (Chinese) search engines. We need more COMPETITION to reduce our reliance on parasites like Google / Microsoft / FB etc and thus force the industry to reevaluate their business model on how they make money from us. Yandex has a pretty decent search engine, and also helpfully provides a li…
There's also Qwant (https://www.qwant.com/), a European-based search engine that also claims to respect privacy: https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/security/how-does-qwant...
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#46I love DDG! Switched to it about a year ago and haven't looked back. The odd time I need to use Google at work for a specific technical lookup but otherwise I don't need too. I love to support the underdog who values privacy. I recommend it to everyone.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#47I'm glad most a lot of these comments are saying DDG works for them; I still have a lot of issues with the search quality and switched to Startpage a while ago which uses anonymized google results.
I'm with you. I switched to DDG, and within a day i started subconsciously adding `!g` to my query. And it's for simple things, not even complicated programming queries. For example, if i wanna see what the weather is, typing "Toronto weather" in google gives me the current weather right on the front page, whereas with DDG, i have to scan for weather network and click on it to actually get the information. Same goes…
For anyone reading this, you don't have to use g!. If you use s!, it'll go through StartPage, giving roughly the same results without actually using Google.
Only recently learned this from another HN commenter around here.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm with you. I switched to DDG, and within a day i started subconsciously adding `!g` to my query. And it's for simple things, not even complicated programming queries. For example, if i wanna see what the weather is, typing "Toronto weather" in google gives me the current weather right on the front page, whereas with DDG, i have to scan for weather network and click on it to actually get the information. Same goes…
"toronto weather" gives me the weather now and the 7 day forecast in a widget on the top of the search page. If I search "packers" it gives me the latest packers scores on the top (and if a game is ongoing an indicator of the time, who has the ball, and the score), if I search "patriots", there is an nfl tab on the top that I can click and it gives me the scores. I'm not saying you're wrong, but DDG has been working…
Hmm, you are right it shows correct weather now.
But here[0] are the examples of sport and movies/tv shows that i was talking about.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#49Also available at https://duck.com now, after much ado.
Why are they redirecting it to duckduckgo.com, why not just use duck.com? Short and simple.