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For a couple of month I have set duckduckgo as my standard search engine, but I often do not get satisfactory results. Is this because I am used to the Google results or does duckduckgo indeed not prioritize in a good way?
duckduckgo is definitely not an alternative for google. you can't even compare.
Alot of people can't live without Google because the search results are very unique. In that case, we suggest downloading PrivacyWall. It's free and it will block Google tracking along with 3000+ ad trackers. We built it so anyone on Windows can use the web and protect your privacy. PrivacyWall does not have any conflicts of interest. Alot of users are not aware that DuckDuckGo makes money from ads, so they do track…
Alot of people can't live without Google because the search results are very unique. In that case, we suggest downloading PrivacyWall. It's free and it will block Google tracking along with 3000+ ad trackers. We built it so anyone on Windows can use the web and protect your privacy. PrivacyWall does not have any conflicts of interest. Alot of users are not aware that DuckDuckGo makes money from ads, so they do track…
This is a lie, from what I can tell? DDG's ads aren't exactly inconspicuous, and they claim plenty of times that they're targeted exclusively on current search query keywords. So no history or tracking involved.
Avoiding google is tricky.Not impressed.
It does not matter if you do not use GMail, google/microsoft/ has all your emails anyways, since everybody sends you emails from those domains.
Alot of people can't live without Google because the search results are very unique. In that case, we suggest downloading PrivacyWall. It's free and it will block Google tracking along with 3000+ ad trackers. We built it so anyone on Windows can use the web and protect your privacy. PrivacyWall does not have any conflicts of interest. Alot of users are not aware that DuckDuckGo makes money from ads, so they do track…
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Personalized and targeted results aren't good results.
Didn't say they are, but I have a feeling that this is exactly what the original commenter is missing
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duckduckgo is definitely not an alternative for google. you can't even compare.
It is in some use cases. For programming related queries, it oftentimes gives me better results than Google because it's not trying to be clever and guess what I could actually mean.
For a couple of month I have set duckduckgo as my standard search engine, but I often do not get satisfactory results. Is this because I am used to the Google results or does duckduckgo indeed not prioritize in a good way?
You can't have personalized, targeted results without being tracked.
Regional/targeted/personalized results often add noise.
I appreciate that this is what google needs in order to monetize on ads. And that real verbatim searches are likely more resource hungry.
I just wish there was an option to pay some form premium subscription service where I can have really in depth verbatim search without being treated as 'suspicious' activity by the engine.
For a couple of month I have set duckduckgo as my standard search engine, but I often do not get satisfactory results. Is this because I am used to the Google results or does duckduckgo indeed not prioritize in a good way?
duckduckgo is definitely not an alternative for google. you can't even compare.
I switched to duckduckgo about a year ago and never even looked back. The results are perfectly fine and I am pretty satisfied with them. What do you feel is not comparable? One thing I noticed, which is great, that duckduckgo does not filter/censor your search results (except pictures).
edit: The only "bad" thing about it is its name. typing duckduckgo.com into the url bar when I am on some other computer takes kinda long, but I am okay with that