If you want freedom and more privacy, stop using so much proprietary software. How much Apple lover out there talking about privacy or freedom. They are blind.
I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
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Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#12I've tried DDG a few times over the past 3-4 years and reverted back to Google each time until now because, actually, the results are good enough and it's refreshing to see just a page full of search results without all the Google guff.
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#13Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination. I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.
Do you ever actually use that? I've come to the conclusion (on all search engines) that if the result I'm looking for isn't on the first page, it's not going to be on the second or third either, so I've stopped even looking there.
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#14I’ve always wondered how the economics of DDG work out, considering they’re basically a proxy for Bing with a bunch of other scraped/API-based data sources they layer on top. Are they paying Bing per query? How can that net out positively? I suppose at their volume they’ve negotiated great API rates, but their own ads can’t possibly bring in enough revenue to cover the expenses of the API calls…
Some of the links are also affiliated. This is not exactly great for 100% 'unbiased' results but, since their main competition is Google, I think the Rubicon has already been crossed on that score?
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#15My quick review after more than a year of DDG as my default: - Technical searches are usually on par with Google, or even better. What made me switch originally was that I got fed up with Google just straight up ignoring half my query, and I've had none of that frustration with DDG. - I like the dark theme (although I think Google's experimenting with that now) - DDG is absolutely worthless when it comes to local sea…
That reflects my usage pretty accurately as well. I am rarely on a DDG results page for non-technical topics because I always delegate to other sites via !bang, !g being the most common one.
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#16Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination. I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.
You can enable "infinite scroll" for both search results and images. That is not explicit pagination, but it does save a mouse click.
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#17My quick review after more than a year of DDG as my default: - Technical searches are usually on par with Google, or even better. What made me switch originally was that I got fed up with Google just straight up ignoring half my query, and I've had none of that frustration with DDG. - I like the dark theme (although I think Google's experimenting with that now) - DDG is absolutely worthless when it comes to local sea…
Another thing for which DuckDuckGo is useless: finding media. It or whatever crawler it uses totally falls for those keyword-flooded sites that have a couple ads and then paragraphs of "wandavision watch free mr robot now free download all seasons season 1 101 dalmatians disney land[...]" autogeneration. I wish they'd do something about all the spam.
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#18My quick review after more than a year of DDG as my default: - Technical searches are usually on par with Google, or even better. What made me switch originally was that I got fed up with Google just straight up ignoring half my query, and I've had none of that frustration with DDG. - I like the dark theme (although I think Google's experimenting with that now) - DDG is absolutely worthless when it comes to local sea…
When it comes to local searches, i recommend toggling the little switch on the left that limits searches to a specific country/language. I have found that this helps a lot.
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#19Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination. I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.
I am curious here. Why is that an antipattern in said case?
In particular, page based pagination requires a permanent set of elements that are sortable.
Sortable, indeed, you sort based on a scoring mechanism.
Permanent, nopes. If you save page 4 of search page and take a look at it next week, it might be different.
If pagiantion should be properly implemented in a search engine it would be like in elasticsearch where it is transaction and cursor based. But hey, carrying around millions of open transactions is not feasible.
So it seems to be a fair trade off to make an infinity scroll like feature for this.
But again, please enlighten me. I am curious.
Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
#20My quick review after more than a year of DDG as my default: - Technical searches are usually on par with Google, or even better. What made me switch originally was that I got fed up with Google just straight up ignoring half my query, and I've had none of that frustration with DDG. - I like the dark theme (although I think Google's experimenting with that now) - DDG is absolutely worthless when it comes to local sea…
It seems to do better with local searches in the US(not surprising) but it's still not very good at that. In terms of maps, DDG maps basically stinks besides the fact that the actual map UI is based on Apple Maps. It otherwise lacks a lot of features that MapQuest even had back in 1998.