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I like DDG, but I find in general that there are two main problems: 1. It's still much slower than google. 2. The results are still sometimes lacking. I could
by d_theorist 9y ago
I like DDG, but I find in general that there are two main problems:
1. It's still much slower than google.
2. The results are still sometimes lacking.
I could probably live with the slowness if the results were more consistently high quality. For example, just the other day I was searching for some specific error message in DDG and it returned 1 (irrelevant) result. Google returned hundreds of good results. In that case it seemed to me that google had indexed a lot of IRC archives and mailing list archives that DDG had not.
- vollmond 9y agoI think DDG must be improving. I used to multiple times a day finish a DDG search by adding "!g" to my terms to see if Google was better. Now it's maybe once a week, maybe even less.
- dhimes 9y agoI agree. For pretty much anything I do I'm using it without another thought. Even the error messages are coming back well (but I am probably searching simple error messages and not edge-case stuff). Also, hobby (sailing) and around-the-house stuff is coming up great. I still don't understand their business model though.