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> there is a growing amount of people who are looking for alternatives to Google.
But this site is not amongst those.
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#12Wish there was more info on the difference between these services.
I really admire DDG but I don't think they check their ads well. I have been taken in by a scam ad once before.
For email, I've been using fastmail ever since I asked this[1] two years ago. It is terrific. It also provides a calendar.
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#13These list never have good alternatives for Google Voice which is probably the most important Google service I use.
Because who else is going to give away phone numbers with unlimited incoming AND outgoing texting and US calls?
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#14I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work. Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find wh…
I totally agree. Depending on which field I'm working on I know right away when to skip DDG entirely. Makes me sad I wish I could skip google but unfortunately there are a lot of topics where DDG misses the mark.
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#15I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work. Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find wh…
This is so weird to me. I use DDG on my home computer, but Google at work, so I have experience with both.... and they're basically indistinguishable to me.
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#16I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work. Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find wh…
you can '!g search' in ddg to search google instead
I found myself increasingly doing this to the point where I just gave up and submitted myself to Google once more. It’s still king.
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#17I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work. Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find wh…
This is an unfortunate paradox of a new search engine: the results suck because no one searches and no one searches because the results suck.
I try to continue to work at it until I get a result I’m looking for in the hopes that it helps improve the search results for myself and others.
I can say that the ddg results today are good enough that I can actually use it as my default, but this was not true several years ago.
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#18https://www.betterinternetsearch.com is a new startup out of Scotland which is interesting. Their approach to monetisation is rather radical. The product works well but the mountain to climb is vast. Google’s moat is deep.
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#19I really like keyword searches in Firefox's navigation bar. They are like lower latency and faster DDG "bangs". What I found is that most of my searches are better served by direct searches on Wikipedia and Stack Overflow. For Linux and software trouble shooting, using Google is better, but at least there's less "privacy surface area" than doing everything through Google.
There's also so much SEO-spam on Google/Bing that I find it easier to just do site:reddit.com or look up the top rated posts/comments on HN from Algolia. The latter works really well, so thank you all committed HN users! :)
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#20I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work. Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find wh…
Your experience matches mine exactly.
I tried to use DDG for a whole year only to realize I was constantly typing !g