DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
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#2Ive been using it for 4 years and rarely need to try google. Set it as your default!
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#3I’ve been using ddg for a little over 5 years. Those first few years of use I found myself using !g a ton, but I think ddg’s results are actually better now. Not that the search is necessarily better, but I don’t have to wade through a bunch of ads. I know this is a tired position around here but honestly there’s very little I get out of google’s search that I don’t get from ddg.
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#4I’ve been using ddg for a little over 5 years. Those first few years of use I found myself using !g a ton, but I think ddg’s results are actually better now. Not that the search is necessarily better, but I don’t have to wade through a bunch of ads. I know this is a tired position around here but honestly there’s very little I get out of google’s search that I don’t get from ddg.
I'd say I still do the !g thing about 10% of the time. DDG is good for my average search case of "I really just need to get to the wikipedia article but I don't know quite what it's titled", or finding an answer on StackOverflow, but if I'm doing anything that's kind of niche, I end up having to use Google.
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#5At the moment it's pretty good if you want to fact check something, for almost everything else google is way better (especially for news).
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#6Agreed. I tried it a few times over the years and found the results to be pretty poor, but I tried again recently and found the results to be good enough to fully switch both my computer and phone to DDG.
Although I'm fully switched over, there are 2 drawbacks:
* Since DDG tracks you less, the results for local searches may be worse. If you're in Boston, TX you'll probably want to search for "boston, tx restaurants" whereas I'm guessing Google could handle "boston restaurants" if your location is in Boston, TX.
* Finding brand new results seems a bit harder. I found this especially true when searching for election results. Searching for, e.g., "nevada election results" was showing me results from 2016 and 2018 on the day of those elections this year. Now the DDG results seem to correctly point to 2020 results.
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#7I’ve been using ddg for a little over 5 years. Those first few years of use I found myself using !g a ton, but I think ddg’s results are actually better now. Not that the search is necessarily better, but I don’t have to wade through a bunch of ads. I know this is a tired position around here but honestly there’s very little I get out of google’s search that I don’t get from ddg.
I'd say I still do the !g thing about 10% of the time. DDG is good for my average search case of "I really just need to get to the wikipedia article but I don't know quite what it's titled", or finding an answer on StackOverflow, but if I'm doing anything that's kind of niche, I end up having to use Google.
I totally agree with you. I have made ddg my default search on browser but many times I end up Googling. It has increased the time to get the final answere to 1.5 times atleast.
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#8I strongly disagree, especially when you have all the Wikipedia / contact / google map embedded into Google search, with one click it can call phone number from a restaurant.
Edit: To add more, it's all those details that makes Google better than other, search engine are not just for searching things it's all about the display and relevance.
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#9I tried switching a bunch of times over the years but finally in the last six months or so I've found DDG to be good enough to use full time.
I probably went three or four months without even using the "!g" command. I actually just yesterday ran into some issues and had to use "!g" - for some reason DDG struggled with the concept of "fish shell" and kept bringing me back results about seafood.
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#10I’ve been using ddg for a little over 5 years. Those first few years of use I found myself using !g a ton, but I think ddg’s results are actually better now. Not that the search is necessarily better, but I don’t have to wade through a bunch of ads. I know this is a tired position around here but honestly there’s very little I get out of google’s search that I don’t get from ddg.
I've been using DDG for about three years now and I still use !g a lot, but I really shouldn't. Google practically never finds what I'm looking for if DDG can't.