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If you hate AMP you should try and use DuckDuckGo.com these days. I'm astounded at how much better it is than the last time I tried it. Switched to it in Chro

If you hate AMP you should try and use DuckDuckGo.com these days. I'm astounded at how much better it is than the last time I tried it. Switched to it in Chrome a few weeks ago and don't miss Google. Which is shocking to me.

dordoka 9y ago
Not to be pedantic, but you should switch Chrome too. Firefox 57 is pretty amazing (currently in nightly).
- pvg 9y ago
  That's not pedantic, just unrelated.
- godzillabrennus 9y ago
  I'm trailing Brave out at the moment and like it but plugins are important to me. Firefox is an interesting choice but the Chrome plugin ecosystem seems much more complete for me than Firefox has today. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the space. I was a Mozilla user, then Firefox and now Chrome user. I have no issue going to better platforms.
- guitarbill 9y ago
  I tried this recently because ideologically I agree. But the small issues build up and make me less productive. For example, if you use a U2F key, you need an extension for that to work - and that extension doesn't work with FF 57. I honestly don't remember the last time something broke with Chrome. Or smaller things, like the fact that I can't use the keyboard to manage bookmarks (in FF on macOS, backspace doesn't delete bookmarks). But the worst is in FF, Ctrl+Shift+N isn't new incognito window, it's restore the previous window. Years of muscle memory don't go away overnight.
  - dordoka 9y ago
    Chances are that extension is not yet ported to the WebExtensions API. It should probably be ported eventually, as precisely one of the benefits of WebExtensions is that it makes way more easy to port a Chrome extension to a Firefox one and viceversa. Regarding the shortcuts, I feel you. There's an extension for that as well (Menu Wizard) but it has also not been ported. I guess it's too soon yet.
royal_ts 9y ago
DuckDuckGo feels useless for almost every programming related search queries
- godzillabrennus 9y ago
  I've had a different experience. It's been successfully bringing me the correct stackoverflow results I would expect when I need to search.
- dabber 9y ago
  In my experience it's getting better every few months. A year ago compared to now feels like it's a different search engine and I find new stuff every day, for example, vim cheat sheet
- oneweekwonder 9y ago
  The fact that DuckDuckGo embed a SO snippet of the search query you entered makes it very useful for me.
- jaimeeee 9y ago
  I really like DuckDuckGo, but I'm not super happy to get Taylor Swift results when searching for iOS/Swift related things :(
- akvadrako 9y ago
  I also thought that months ago, but it seems much better now. Plus, I'm really starting to like the bangs, which allow you to search language-specific docs directly without any setup.
comstock 9y ago
Hmm I wonder if it's possible to create a kind of independent benchmark for search engine results (I guess possibly doomed to failure due to its inherent subjective nature). I've been trying to use DDG more, unfortunately I'm not so impressed. Quite often end up researching for Google.

dordoka 9y ago

Not to be pedantic, but you should switch Chrome too. Firefox 57 is pretty amazing (currently in nightly).

pvg 9y ago
That's not pedantic, just unrelated.
godzillabrennus 9y ago
I'm trailing Brave out at the moment and like it but plugins are important to me. Firefox is an interesting choice but the Chrome plugin ecosystem seems much more complete for me than Firefox has today. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the space. I was a Mozilla user, then Firefox and now Chrome user. I have no issue going to better platforms.
guitarbill 9y ago
I tried this recently because ideologically I agree. But the small issues build up and make me less productive. For example, if you use a U2F key, you need an extension for that to work - and that extension doesn't work with FF 57. I honestly don't remember the last time something broke with Chrome. Or smaller things, like the fact that I can't use the keyboard to manage bookmarks (in FF on macOS, backspace doesn't delete bookmarks). But the worst is in FF, Ctrl+Shift+N isn't new incognito window, it's restore the previous window. Years of muscle memory don't go away overnight.
- dordoka 9y ago
  Chances are that extension is not yet ported to the WebExtensions API. It should probably be ported eventually, as precisely one of the benefits of WebExtensions is that it makes way more easy to port a Chrome extension to a Firefox one and viceversa. Regarding the shortcuts, I feel you. There's an extension for that as well (Menu Wizard) but it has also not been ported. I guess it's too soon yet.

royal_ts 9y ago

DuckDuckGo feels useless for almost every programming related search queries

godzillabrennus 9y ago
I've had a different experience. It's been successfully bringing me the correct stackoverflow results I would expect when I need to search.
dabber 9y ago
In my experience it's getting better every few months. A year ago compared to now feels like it's a different search engine and I find new stuff every day, for example, vim cheat sheet
oneweekwonder 9y ago
The fact that DuckDuckGo embed a SO snippet of the search query you entered makes it very useful for me.
jaimeeee 9y ago
I really like DuckDuckGo, but I'm not super happy to get Taylor Swift results when searching for iOS/Swift related things :(
akvadrako 9y ago
I also thought that months ago, but it seems much better now. Plus, I'm really starting to like the bangs, which allow you to search language-specific docs directly without any setup.

comstock 9y ago

Hmm I wonder if it's possible to create a kind of independent benchmark for search engine results (I guess possibly doomed to failure due to its inherent subjective nature). I've been trying to use DDG more, unfortunately I'm not so impressed. Quite often end up researching for Google.