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I've been using DDG for about 2 years now and have rarely needed to resort to a google search in this time. A few of the cases for google were funnily were when
by wheresvic1 9y ago
I've been using DDG for about 2 years now and have rarely needed to resort to a google search in this time. A few of the cases for google were funnily were when I was trying to lookup someone and get their email address.
I do full-stack programming: java, Node.js react, angular, redux for my day job and dabble in a bit of C++ outside of work as well.
- DavideNL 9y ago... and in cases where DDG fails, you can fall back to https://www.startpage.com/ https://www.startpage.com/ which shows Googles results but strips Googles tracking.
- mrmondo 9y agoIt seems to be /very/ slow to load, google and ddg both seem to load in < 1s where startpage averages around 3-5 seconds, I wonder if it provides any advantages over say using a grease monkey userscript to strip the tracking?
- ourmandave 9y agoAs a paranoid my first thought was, what is startpage.com doing with my information and searches?
- jqs79 9y agoWhich is the right reaction, but you can read up on them; what other source of knowledge can we depend on other than that of people articulating their cause and others who substantiate those claims?
- vollmond 9y agoInteresting. Looks like DDG has a bang for it, too: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=startpage https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=startpage
- r3bl 9y agoDDG has a bang for a lot of things, because it's trivial to implement them (they just redirect you to <page.com>/<something>?q=<your_search_term_here), and trivial to make a suggestion.