Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
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Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#2i always make ddg my default... but then ill just use google for a sec and forget to change my search back to ddg and then without noticing ill be using google for the next week.
.... so my project for the weekend is to make a firefox extension that resets your search default every X hours/days.
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#3...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#4i always make ddg my default... but then ill just use google for a sec and forget to change my search back to ddg and then without noticing ill be using google for the next week. .... so my project for the weekend is to make a firefox extension that resets your search default every X hours/days.
Have you seen the ! queries on DuckDuckGo? If you add !g to a search, it redirects you to Google. !i goes to Google Image search. I guess there are others.
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#5The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#6DDG is a nice search engine for simple research, but I don't use it as much for its search purpose as for its !bang utility.
Being able to search on almost any website by adding a simple keyword is a real plus and I will go even further and say that sometimes it accelerates the search process (say you know you want to search on wikipedia for instance).
However, I have to admit that most of the times I end up searching on google :)
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#7The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?
Use AlfredApp for arithmetic ;)
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#8...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
You don't have to trust it. You can sniff 100% of the traffic coming out of your own computer. You can even configure a firewall to block all traffic to Google's netblocks.
Re: Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
#9What kind of joke is this? You are telling us to use a US-based search engine in a propietary browser made by a US-based company that we already know has given direct access to the NSA? What the fuck.