I switched after Google's redesign too, this time it's good enough for good.
DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
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#22It's only good enough when you're in the US, I live in the UK and DDG consistently returns non local results even though the country is set correctly, it's especially annoying given how many US cities are named after their UK counterpart.
This is my only gripe with DDG.
For daily use, it's fine, but it's awful for local results or anything that requires a map or directions.
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#23It's only good enough when you're in the US, I live in the UK and DDG consistently returns non local results even though the country is set correctly, it's especially annoying given how many US cities are named after their UK counterpart.
Unfortunately this is the same for Romania as well, no local results are returned even though the country was set correctly.
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#24Switched to DDG 3 years back! Only to check if Google lists anything different, checked it rarely. DDG is very GOOD imho. Since, you see organic results mostly based on the ranking rather than preference to mobile sites, AMP & advertisers, it feels refreshing and good.
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#25I think I've figured out what is happening when people tell me that DuckDuckGo's results "aren't good enough".
What's really happening is that they've been trained to search a certain way to using Google and because DDG doesn't have all the historical data of your searches on their platform they can't fill in the gaps as well.
After a couple days using DDG I found the right vocabulary to get good local results and which bangs to use to get results from the sites that I want. It's a more effective tool if you learn how to use it.
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#26I would like to take any chance I can to avoid Google products, but I dont agree with this. DuckDuckGo is using the infamous "More Results", essentially infinite scroll. Until that changes Im not using DuckDuckGo.
You can turn that off in the settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
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#27I’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.
90% of the time I use !g, google doesn't have anything in the first few pages either.
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#28Like the author, I switched over when the google ad thing happened, and for the same reason. But instead of DDG, I decided to try out ecosia ( https://www.ecosia.org ) which is a wrapper over Bing. But they'll take all the ad revenue and use it to plant trees. So I get decent search results (bing isn't quite as good as google, but it's pretty decent for what I need) and also get to save the earth a little bit.
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#29I 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.
Strange, my top three DDG results for 'fish shell' are for the friendly interactive shell. Maybe you just have really good seafood around your area?
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#30It's only good enough when you're in the US, I live in the UK and DDG consistently returns non local results even though the country is set correctly, it's especially annoying given how many US cities are named after their UK counterpart.
That means I should try DDG. I NEVER EVER want local results, and Google always gives me local results. If I'd want local results I would put my country or my city in the search query.