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Poll: Which search engine do you primarily use?
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Re: Poll: Which search engine do you primarily use?
#1280% DDG (primary), 10% Google (fallback), 10% specialized search engines (MSDN, AS3, Hoogle, etc.).
Typically, for general searches, if DDG doesn't give the results I want, I add !g to my query to search Google. (Usually searching for error messages works better on Google, for example.)
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#13Google DDG seems to be the hipster search engine to me...look at me I'm at the forefront of search technology...sure the results suck compared to Google..but at least I'm not a sheep like the rest of the sheep using the internet.
While the results could sometimes be more relevant, being a "hipster" is by far not the reason many people use DDG. I originally switched because I cared for my privacy, but I stayed for the awesome features, like the bangs and often insanely helpful instant-results (I can't count the number of times my queries were answered without clicking even a single link).
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#14Spotlight
Can you provide a link? I don't think you're doing all your searching at spotlight.com.
I think he's talking about the OSX built-in Spotlight [1]
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#15Waaaaay back in the day my favorite search engine was Excite.
Truthfully, I don't see a compelling reason to ever switch away from Google. I always find what I'm looking for there.
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#16Google DDG seems to be the hipster search engine to me...look at me I'm at the forefront of search technology...sure the results suck compared to Google..but at least I'm not a sheep like the rest of the sheep using the internet.
I switched to DDG due to them being majorly transparent and them caring about my privacy. Also wouldn't you be a sheep for using Google seeing as it is the most used search engine on the web?
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#17Google DDG seems to be the hipster search engine to me...look at me I'm at the forefront of search technology...sure the results suck compared to Google..but at least I'm not a sheep like the rest of the sheep using the internet.
While the results could sometimes be more relevant, being a "hipster" is by far not the reason many people use DDG. I originally switched because I cared for my privacy, but I stayed for the awesome features, like the bangs and often insanely helpful instant-results (I can't count the number of times my queries were answered without clicking even a single link).
the thing is that noone really cares about you enough for you to worry about your privacy.
Hell, even celebrities don't get their Google search histories published in Tmz...so you have nothing to worry about.
And if you are planning to do something illegal, then using a different search engine won't help you one bit
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#18I thought I'd give DuckDuckGo a try, thinking a search engine must be good to have people start using it, when Google does such a bang up job already. Seemed fine at first. Then I typed in my own name, and unlike Google, DuckDuckGo decided to post some other guy with the same name in MY number 1 search result position. I think I'll be switching back now.
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#19startpage / ixquick
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