4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
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4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
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Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#2I find Googles' invasion of privacy a big turn off. I have long since stopped using Facebook for exactly this reason. I am not quite at the point with Google where I say I don't trust them, unlike Facebook. I regularly check out DuckDuckGo but its search results are not quite there yet for me, in comparison to Google. At this stage the gap is narrowing, both as a result of my increasing concerns over the invasion of privacy from Google and the increasing quality of DuckDuckGo.
It is only a matter of time before I say goodbye to Google forever....
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#3I find Googles' invasion of privacy a big turn off. I have long since stopped using Facebook for exactly this reason. I am not quite at the point with Google where I say I don't trust them, unlike Facebook. I regularly check out DuckDuckGo but its search results are not quite there yet for me, in comparison to Google. At this stage the gap is narrowing, both as a result of my increasing concerns over the invasion of…
I also found that to be true; but Google results are very much superior in my opinion for time being.
But I am not sure what privacy concerns people have, that being said I am not too worried about that sort of thing.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#4I use google mostly for "How to do x in y framework", and I can get a good response 75% of the time, and that goes up to about 85% with some better phrasing. I tried ddg for a week, but I used g! so much that I felt a bit silly.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#5I use google mostly for "How to do x in y framework", and I can get a good response 75% of the time, and that goes up to about 85% with some better phrasing. I tried ddg for a week, but I used g! so much that I felt a bit silly.
I've found that you can get that extra 10% of relevance by including the year in your query.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#6Google is better only with ads turned off. Otherwise DDG and Bing beat Google's ads anytime. Try surfing Google without an ad blocker to see what I'm talking about, they've gone way over what's acceptable.
Either way I go the extra mile to give the underdog a chance.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#7I tried DDG for little more than a week about a year a go and it made me realize how much I use the search suggestion feature in Chrome.
The lack of that feature using DDG really annoyed me. Often I don't know the exact spelling of the thing I'm looking for or the best way to phrase my question (English being my third language), and the suggestions I get in chrome just by typing a few letters in the address bar is really great. And often times I'm just looking for how to spell a word and with the suggestions I don't even have to leave the page I'm on.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#8The writer appears to be the wrong audience of !bang. As a physics student, I find !w tremendously helpful. Image searching is also much faster since it all can be done in the search bar rather than requiring the mouse. !wa for wolfram alpha is again great. It's far better for sites in which there is no better alternative than using their search bar, rather than the type of usage the article seemed to employ.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#9Google is better only with ads turned off. Otherwise DDG and Bing beat Google's ads anytime. Try surfing Google without an ad blocker to see what I'm talking about, they've gone way over what's acceptable. Either way I go the extra mile to give the underdog a chance.
Google has gone so far over the line with ads it's ridiculous. I didn't even realize it until recently when I disabled my ad blocker for a moment.
I'm amazed Googlers can look at that every day at work and not feel like their company has lost it's way.
Just checked it now with ad blocker off on my 13" macbook air screen. The organic results are barely above the fold... barely. Offensive.
Re: 4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo
#10I tried DDG for little more than a week about a year a go and it made me realize how much I use the search suggestion feature in Chrome. The lack of that feature using DDG really annoyed me. Often I don't know the exact spelling of the thing I'm looking for or the best way to phrase my question (English being my third language), and the suggestions I get in chrome just by typing a few letters in the address bar is re…
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