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I switched my default search engine on my phone from Google to DuckDuckGo because I got sick of the growing number AMP links, which I also don't like for all th
by macNchz 10y ago
I switched my default search engine on my phone from Google to DuckDuckGo because I got sick of the growing number AMP links, which I also don't like for all the same reasons you listed.
They are a bad reminder of the early days of the mobile internet when lots of websites would automatically redirect you to a terrible 'mobile version'. I certainly want better mobile sites, but not in the form of these AMP pages.
- monochromatic 10y agoAMP annoys my too, but it hadn't occurred to me to switch to DuckDuckGo. Good idea, just made the change.
- macNchz 10y agoIt's definitely not perfect but I've found DuckDuckGo to work reasonably well for the kind of quick searches I tend to do from my phone. Plus if it's giving you bad results you can tack on !g to the query and it'll give you the google results instead.
- tdkl 10y agoIt sure would be awesome if Chrome on Android had it available as an option. But, it's Google.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoIf you trust APKs from random strangers on the internet, here's my custom Chromium for Android build with DDG support: https://sr.ht/dIQO.apk https://sr.ht/dIQO.apk Here's the patch that adds it to the list of search providers: https://sr.ht/h4bZ.patch https://sr.ht/h4bZ.patch
- tdkl 10y agoThanks, I tried some Chromium based browsers on the Play Store, but they all have unreliable or even non working Chrome Sync. I'd go full FF, if scrolling on Android wasn't so jerky compared to Chrome.
- flukus 10y agoI started using it because it get's better results. Google says "oh you searched for something vaguely related two weeks ago? let me show you those results instead of what you're searching for now".
- tdkl 10y agoPersonalized searches can at least be disabled. AMP on the other hand, not.
- fuck_google 10y agoActually it's even worse nowadays. Mobile-first design by unskilled designers has resulted in an avalanche of websites that are terrible with mobile browsers and even worse with desktop browsers due to extremely low information density. Mobile-first websites usually require much more clicking and scrolling through almost content free pages to browse through content. Lately I've been stunned by the amount of crappy mobile-first websites that display hardly any actual content at all above the fold.
- gressquel 10y agoChanged my iPad search engine to Bing