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All great tools (ghostery is missing, although there is Disconnect), but the lack of a great search engine like Google is a big deal. I don't use DuckDuckGo reg

by mk89 10y ago

All great tools (ghostery is missing, although there is Disconnect), but the lack of a great search engine like Google is a big deal. I don't use DuckDuckGo regularly because, although I believe it's a great search engine that works mostly fine, sometimes the results are somewhat unexpected, and you need to be fast and focused. The rest is okay, there seems to be a good amount of email providers, but Search Engines? :(

keeganjw 10y ago
DuckDuckGo can still help somewhat here. You can search pretty much anywhere via DuckDuckGo and it strips out some of your personal data when it redirects you. It's not perfect but it helps. Also, the bang syntax (i.e. search google with !g, google images with !gi, wikipedia with !w, etc.) is so damn helpful. Whenever I'm using a browser without DDG as the default I find it so much slower to search something.
- crdoconnor 10y ago
  What would be more useful than the bang would be a button that lets you click "try this search again in google".
- mk89 10y ago
  I know, I have used and I still use DuckDuckGo. However, I have found that for many queries I need, I end up typing continuously "!g query". So, I just don't see the point. Many of the results are just not relevant - of course, I send the feedback. It's not a criticism, it's just that in my case I don't want to open 4-5 tabs, lose focus trying to understand whether the content is relevant or not, and then use Google.
  - keeganjw 10y ago
    To be fair, I pretty much never go to the home page or use their actual search engine except for unit conversions. It's pretty good at that. I end up searching everything through !g for regular search results. But I'm constantly searching other websites via DDG. It's just so much quicker.
BurungHantu 10y ago
"ghostery is missing" for a good reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model
- mk89 10y ago
  Does this happen when you opt-out the GhostRank feature? My understanding is that if you decide to support them, then they'll use such data. However, I think I will start using Disconnect. Thanks for your hint!

by mk89 10y ago

keeganjw 10y ago

DuckDuckGo can still help somewhat here. You can search pretty much anywhere via DuckDuckGo and it strips out some of your personal data when it redirects you. It's not perfect but it helps. Also, the bang syntax (i.e. search google with !g, google images with !gi, wikipedia with !w, etc.) is so damn helpful. Whenever I'm using a browser without DDG as the default I find it so much slower to search something.

crdoconnor 10y ago
What would be more useful than the bang would be a button that lets you click "try this search again in google".
mk89 10y ago
I know, I have used and I still use DuckDuckGo. However, I have found that for many queries I need, I end up typing continuously "!g query". So, I just don't see the point. Many of the results are just not relevant - of course, I send the feedback. It's not a criticism, it's just that in my case I don't want to open 4-5 tabs, lose focus trying to understand whether the content is relevant or not, and then use Google.
- keeganjw 10y ago
  To be fair, I pretty much never go to the home page or use their actual search engine except for unit conversions. It's pretty good at that. I end up searching everything through !g for regular search results. But I'm constantly searching other websites via DDG. It's just so much quicker.

BurungHantu 10y ago

"ghostery is missing" for a good reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model

mk89 10y ago
Does this happen when you opt-out the GhostRank feature? My understanding is that if you decide to support them, then they'll use such data. However, I think I will start using Disconnect. Thanks for your hint!