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Post by pixxel »

jjcon wrote: post #4

Does anyone have any tips for using ddg? I feel like maybe I’m just not conditioned to how it thinks cause I seem to have terrible luck with my search relevance. People here seem to love it and I would love to switch over from google but I just can’t get the knack.

Take a peek at https://duckduckgo.com/bang

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Post by rakoo »

willio58 wrote: post #3

Until ddg indexes themselves I don’t see much of a point in switching. Will they be reliant on bing forever?

Even if duckduckgo stored all searches and shared it with advertisers, it would still be better than giving all that data to Google.

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Post by TheAdamAndChe »

aminozuur wrote: post #9

Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.

Funny thing there is that the quality of Google Search results have absolutely dropped off a cliff for me in the last two years. I'm finding frequently that duckduckgo provides more relevant results with a better UI and faster loading times.

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Post by chiefalchemist »

aminozuur wrote: post #9

Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.

Understood. DDG can be wonky at times. But just in case, you might want to give this interview/discussion a listen.

Moi? I start with DDG. If I feel I need a second opinion, I'll try Google.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...

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Post by da_big_ghey »

aminozuur wrote: post #9

Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.

The thing that finally drove me off google wasn't data privacy, but how terrible it got in the past few weeks alone. It's started serving me crazy numbers of captchas whenever I'm on my VPN (personal server that I run), one after almost every query. I normally go through them with Buster, but after doing that maybe twice in a few minutes, it forces me to do the visual one.

Add to that how much google search results are these days already, and it's just not worth it anymore.

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Post by FpUser »

I've tried and keep trying every search engine worth looking at. I really want to get away from Google as much as possible. However I have yet to find anything that gives me anything approaching quality of results. This is of course my private opinion based on my needs and your mileage may vary depending on what you're looking for.

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Post by aminozuur »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #14
aminozuur wrote: post #9

Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.

Funny thing there is that the quality of Google Search results have absolutely dropped off a cliff for me in the last two years. I'm finding frequently that duckduckgo provides more relevant results with a better UI and faster loading times.

That could be so, I'm willing to give DDG another try. But I use google for stock information, flight updates, to calculate "what date is it 18 days after July 13", and many other weird questions that Google answers instantaneously.

Google's gotten so good with all that, that they've got me by the balls.

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