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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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#32I've been using Ecosia as my default search engine on desktop. It's fine for most things - but I sure miss the google cards... type NBA to get the games coming up and the recent scores... same thing for other sports... then I can type the name of a song and it shows me the lyrics and the music video... it's really convenient and that's the reason why I keep going back to google. If DuckDuckGo would implement that same style of cards I would switch to it.
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#33I switched because I got sick of Google telling me to get Chrome when I was using the new Microsoft Edge (which is a fork of Chromium like Chrome is).
Their pop ups when using Edge are an unjustified FUD campaign.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
DDG does a great job with instant answers. You can learn more about the sources at their docs [1].
PS. There are more features than just IA. You can check here [2].
[1]: https://duck.co/ia [2]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/i...
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#35It’s growing for sure but the link to the stats page is cumulative searches so it’s growing slower than the hockey stick graph would have you believe. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic Still impressive though
Is it? It doesn't seem to be cumulative. Although it is smoothed to a 365 days average. If you click on that number and set it to 1 you get a much noisier picture.
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#37Unpopular 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).
Maybe I'm missing something but there's a severe lack of a good image search engine. Relevant results, privacy, decent UI - pick one. It's a huge technical (and financial) challenge, but still - Google is very far ahead there despite its tireless efforts to make the UI an excellent example for the problems of modern web design.
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#38It is not a privacy browser, they track you
It's proprietary
They refused independent source audit
Their android app was leaking your browsing history to their servers: https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527
They are operated from the USA, so government (CIA/FBI) has all the data they want, whenever they want
Re: DuckDuckGo search engine – The privacy browser is growing rapidly
#39It is not a privacy browser, they track you It's proprietary They refused independent source audit Their android app was leaking your browsing history to their servers: https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 They are operated from the USA, so government (CIA/FBI) has all the data they want, whenever they want
Are there any better alternatives than DDG, or is it just the lesser evil of the two?
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#40Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do: I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.
You can't really 'sacrifice' data. A more technically correct phrasing would be "I'm happy to reveal some data about me in return to get top notch search results".
But even that obscures the most important considerations: what does "some data" mean, and to whom are you revealing it? So if we make it a bit more verbose (but still keeping to the facts), it's more like: "I'm happy to reveal my browsing and purchasing history to unknown third parties, in unknown juristictions around the world, in order to get top notch search results." If you're happy to do make that trade, great, but I'd argue it's not such an obviously good deal as you make it sound.