71–80 of 126 posts
OK, but tomorrow when I've forgotten that I've done this and I do a quick search, if the very first thing that comes up isn't what I want, I bet I switch right back.
You get used to typing !g if you want google's results, and then it's automatically run through encrypted.google.com
I've switched to duckduckgo about a month ago, and indeed I'm regularly making search on google because duckduckgo just can't provide the results I want as well (especially when it comes to non english search). But it's way less a pain that it seems : I just type "g", and I'm using google. And I still have the high privacy advantage of duckduckgo for most of my searches where the duck is enough.
The bonus of that is that I now frequently use "gi" to search on github or "y" to search on youtube.
I love DDG and I used it for 6 months but the problem I had is that when I was looking for things related to coding or Linux--it fell short. I would type in an error from Objective-c, Node.js, Java, JavaScript or Scala and nothing helpful would return. This forced me to return to Google which I ended up doing so often that I switched my default search engine back :(.
.*[\d|\.|\"|\,|\(].*|.{42,}
DDG when searching for reference: yeah; bang syntax is great. Google for everything else.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are quite a few! And the list is growing... :) https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
Like a previous commenter noted, the instant math portion of google is a good feature. Any way to do this with DDG?
More complex queries are typically done with Wolfram|Alpha. This goes a long way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=graph+y+%3D+x%2Bcos^2%28sqrt%2842*...
Pretty lame of DuckDuckGo to use this controversy to gain some cheap exposure. Besides, there are zero guarantees that they are immune to the kind of accusation currently aimed at Google and co.
So does it? Or is it safe only because NSA hasn't bothered to go to DDG yet, or do whatever they are doing to get Google's search data (cable splitters or whatever)?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hacker news forgets that people need to get shit done, and all of this bullshit marketing is just a distraction.
Strong words coming from someone meta-commenting on a hacker news story instead of "getting shit done."