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.
I like to start with DDG and then add a !g to the search if I’m not getting what I need.
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#22Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.
I feel that Google Search results in most cases display the results of the companies that have invested in gaming the search engine. It is not always the best results that I am looking for.
For past year or so I have been using reddit as a search engine when looking for suggestions on products, services etc.
Google - mostly for google maps local results.
And DuckDuckGo for anything else.
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#23Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.
Good news: you don't need to anymore.
I used DDG for a couple of years and I was recurrently reverting to Google. Since I changed to Qwant, I only use Google when looking for images. (I'm in Portugal, in other locations might be different).
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#24Unpopular 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 last time I used Google those "top notch" results meant at least 5 links to pinterest and various other sites that are basically unusable to unregistered users.
With DuckDuckGo I don't get results tailored to my profile, but with a bit of time I got a pretty decent intuition what keywords have good chances for quality results. In the beginning I jumped back to Google for some tricky searches, nowadays I don't even bother because I know the results will most likely be even worse.
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#25I've started using Bing. It's actually pretty good, but I do go back to Google for some stuff, usually looking up locations/stores etc.
Also pays in Tesco Supermarket vouchers (£5) every month or so for doing their little quizzes and then combined desktop/mobile searches which is nice.
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#26Can someone just add sport scores to DDG. I used it as my phone's default search for a while, but ultimately had to keep going back to google to get live results and schedules.
Getting API access to stuff like that costs a surprising amount of money for what it is. I guess they’ve worked out that the cost isn’t worth it.
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#28Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.
Good news: you don't need to anymore. I used DDG for a couple of years and I was recurrently reverting to Google. Since I changed to Qwant, I only use Google when looking for images. (I'm in Portugal, in other locations might be different).
Qwant is awful for spanish, and I contacted them about some issues and they just ignore you, despite being a rather small company.
I'm using DDG now.
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#29Does 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.
The trick is to append !g to almost every search.
Sorry, but I have to agree with you. I don't understand how people treat ddg as a viable alternative to google, and I'm surprised by this community's enthusiasm for a search engine whose first result for 'hacker news' is thehackernews.com.
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#30Unpopular 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.
I tried DDG and Bing and only go back to Google.
If you search anything that has a political interest, it is better to use DDG but everything else Google does it better.