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I fully switched to DDG about 5 years ago. Specifically programming questions work great. I'd estimate about 5% of my searches I will revert to google, which
by binarymax 9y ago
I fully switched to DDG about 5 years ago. Specifically programming questions work great. I'd estimate about 5% of my searches I will revert to google, which sometimes doesn't help either because I'm searching for something crazy niche.
- chillingeffect 9y agoSimilar here. Dropped Google several years ago. when I do go back to google, I'm surprised how much it's changed. So little of its results don't have a little "Ad" next to them.
- paulcole 9y ago> So little of its results don't have a little "Ad" next to them Yes, Google is an ad-supported business. What confidence do you have that DDG won't go the same route?
- chillingeffect 9y ago1. It's a private company so they don't need to swell profits quarterly to maintain position in the market 2. They already do sell their results. The difference is they don't attach names to them 3. And if they for some unforeseen reason do go that same route they're not there and I will continue to use them until they do.
- mercer 9y agoThat's interesting. I moved away from DDG, despite my ideological reason to use it in the first place, because I got sick of using !g for at least half my queries. I'm not sure how to make this comment useful other than to ask: what kinds of queries do you find DDG performs better at than Google?