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Do you remember DDG five years ago? Everyone needs to start somewhere. One potential advantage is it's run out of Europe instead of the US, which is significan
by beefsack 9y ago
Do you remember DDG five years ago? Everyone needs to start somewhere.
One potential advantage is it's run out of Europe instead of the US, which is significant for certain people.
- djsumdog 9y agoExactly. I still use !g with DDG if I can't find something; but 1/3 of the time DDG works just fine. Back in the day you'd go to Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, et. al. and you'd get different results! There was a difference with search engines that would leads you to all kinds of interesting stuff. Today it's all monolithic. It's going to be either indexed by Google or on some mega walled garden like FB/Twitter/Tumblr/etc. We need more alternative search engines. I personally stopped using the verb "Googled" and try to say "Searched for" instead. The world needs to be more than just Google.
- dx034 9y agoI'd love if DDG would provide a European version. A subdomain that redirects to data only hosted in the EU. Not sure how hard that would be to accomplish but I'm sure it'd be a good argument for many to start using it.