I love DDG, I just want to point out that everyone is hating on Google's new search results, in part because of a distracting favicon, and DuckDuckGo results have had similar favicons for months now.
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#32As long as the search results don't need to be extremely localized, I found DDG much better and less obnoxious for a year. Still can't get away from "Pizzerias around me" style queries on G + not expecting DDG to take these up anytime soon, as they are probably like 10% of my search queries per day anyways.
DDG gives you the option to have it detect your location or you can set your location manually. I just set mine to approximately my usual location and it gives pretty good location-based results. For example, “pizza near me” shows a map with a bunch of nearby pizzerias.
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#33I love DDG, I just want to point out that everyone is hating on Google's new search results, in part because of a distracting favicon, and DuckDuckGo results have had similar favicons for months now.
While they do have a favicon they however still show the url.
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#34Bang commands[0] really sealed DDG for me. I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing “!yt badgerbadgerbadger” to get specifically YouTube results was fantastic. !g (search on Google) also makes it far easier to switch. Don’t like the results? Prefix !g and try again. My other favorites: !sr [name of subreddit] - much faster than “reddit.com/r/[name]” !r - Red…
JFYI, there's no need to install anything. Focus on a search field on (almost any) website, open the context menu, and "Add a keyword for this search". Put a letter or two into the "keyword" input. Profit.
Mozilla is deprecating OpenSearch support in Firefox[1] at some point. The OpenSearch standard is what provides this functionality.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add...
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#35Bang commands[0] really sealed DDG for me. I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing “!yt badgerbadgerbadger” to get specifically YouTube results was fantastic. !g (search on Google) also makes it far easier to switch. Don’t like the results? Prefix !g and try again. My other favorites: !sr [name of subreddit] - much faster than “reddit.com/r/[name]” !r - Red…
I discovered these when I was trying to learn about different bash shortcuts. I thought it was a bug. Filed a report and everything.
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#36I just tried DDG for the first time, and I'm blown away how good it is! Since I'm mostly using search engines for programming, I searched for "clojure filter" on DDG out of curiosity. It gave me all the relevant documentation pages BUT here is the "blown away" part - it showed me a small Clojure code snippet on the right side of the screen, explaining the usages of the "filter" with a short and concise docstring. It also worked with Kotlin and Swift! I tried the same search query with !g prefix to google it, but left rather disappointed - it's just links to the documentation. As a programmer, this is a tipping point for me to completely ditch Google.
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#37Ironically I just made the switch to DDG today with Firefox because Google’s results have become so polluted and irrelevant. I expected Firefox to ship with DDG as the default but alas it did not to my surprise. Why is Google still the default in Firefox?
A significant fraction of Mozilla's funding comes from google paying to make google the default. I am not sure what the dollar value of this agreement was, but it was a sizable fraction of a billion dollars a year last I checked.
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#38Ironically I just made the switch to DDG today with Firefox because Google’s results have become so polluted and irrelevant. I expected Firefox to ship with DDG as the default but alas it did not to my surprise. Why is Google still the default in Firefox?
google pays firefox for it
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
JFYI, there's no need to install anything. Focus on a search field on (almost any) website, open the context menu, and "Add a keyword for this search". Put a letter or two into the "keyword" input. Profit.
As someone hearing about this for the first time, are custom searches portable? Do they sync with Firefox Sync? Do they work on Firefox for Android?
> Do they sync with Firefox Sync?
No.
> Do they work on Firefox for Android?
Yes.
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#40G: After this Hackernews post.