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Sadly, yes. It's like calling a congressional representative and not having donated enough money to their campaign for your words to be worth their time, yet it
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
Sadly, yes. It's like calling a congressional representative and not having donated enough money to their campaign for your words to be worth their time, yet it's somehow even less fair and accountable.
Also, DuckDuckGo?
- chrisper 10y agoI haven't used DuckDuckGo in years. Has it improved?
- josh64 10y agoYeah surprisingly a lot in the last year.
- oldmanhorton 10y agoI find that it still falls down with a lot of programming questions, but in those cases I can always punt out to google. Aside from that, I think it works plenty well.
- marcosdumay 10y agoIt's not good with loosely formulated queries. But if you have a good selection of words to use, it's better than Google.
- mlok 10y agoIt happens to me 5% of the time : if the results are not what you expect, you can still ask DuckDuckGo to use google, just add !g to your search (or !gm for Google Maps, or !yc for Hacker News etc.) So userful! More here : https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- clappski 10y agoThat's awesome, there's even ones for documentation (!cpp)
- mrighele 10y agoYes. This makes ddg useful as a default search engine even if you decide that you always want to use Google Search, because that you can use all the other bangs. Being able to search "on the fly" wikipedia, youtube, google maps etc. is very valuable
- ambivalence 10y agoI use it as a primary search engine on all devices. Every now and then I'd fallback to !g or !gi if a particular search is particularly bad, typically to learn that Google isn't much better. But the fact those commands are there makes it super low friction :)
- jfaat 10y agoIs anyone still using StartPage? Haven't seen it mentioned but it's been a great alternative for me. I use DDG on my iphone since safari won't let you set StartPage as the default.