DuckDuckGo search engine – The privacy browser is growing rapidly
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Re: DuckDuckGo search engine – The privacy browser is growing rapidly
#2It’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
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#3Until ddg indexes themselves I don’t see much of a point in switching. Will they be reliant on bing forever?
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#4Does 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.
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#5Can 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.
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#6https://ddg.gg is the official shortcut in the faq
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#7As an alternative I've been using Ecosia, it seems to donate 80% or more of its profits to planting trees where they are needed most (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia)
Also considered Privacy friendly: https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/privacy/
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#8Does 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.
Just set it as the default and just add !g to the end of your search query if you don't find what you're looking for to try the same query on google. Eventually you'll figure out which queries work better on which search engine.
In my experience duckduckgo tends to behave more like how google used to work, so if you pick a few well chosen keyword you tend to find stuff pretty quickly but it doesn't respond too well to ambiguous terms or full sentences, google is better at those.
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#9Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do:
I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.
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#10Can 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.
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