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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.
by 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 agoWhat would be more useful than the bang would be a button that lets you click "try this search again in google".
- mk89 10y agoI 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 agoTo 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.