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In my experience, DuckDuckGo just requires a habit shift. You're used to Google knowing everything about you and utilizing that to provide you catered results.

In my experience, DuckDuckGo just requires a habit shift. You're used to Google knowing everything about you and utilizing that to provide you catered results. Be more specific on DDG and you should be fine.

dotancohen 9y ago
This was my feeling as well. Try using Google from a public library and it returns results similar to DDG.
- kaoD 9y ago
  Not at all. I'm not logged in to my Google account at my day job and I still got relevant search results when I arrived. DDG wouldn't after months of use at home.
  - szatkus 9y ago
    You don't need Google account to be profiled by them.
    - kaoD 9y ago
      How else can they profile me in a brand new job, in a brand new Windows installation, in Firefox, if I'm not logged in? The organization I work for has a lot of different job types and we're all proxied through the same external IP so they couldn't even profile my job type. I got relevant results in my first day there. I didn't notice a drop in result quality. Google is just that good even if I hate to admit it.
      - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
        There's still a limited number of job types at your workplace. If you search for "django" odds are none of your non-technical colleagues have been searching for anything other than the Python framework at work.
        kaoD 9y ago
        Fair enough.
maverick_iceman 9y ago
IF DDG needs everyone to change their habits to be viable then it's DOA.