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Well you gotta try DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/?t=mattc58 http://duckduckgo.com/?t=mattc58 I've switched to it for most of my ad hoc searching. Occasio

Well you gotta try DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/?t=mattc58 http://duckduckgo.com/?t=mattc58 I've switched to it for most of my ad hoc searching. Occasionally I use Google still for some things. I also though have 4 separate google accounts for email, which I can't really get away from. Well I guess I could but I probably won't for a while.

gphil 16y ago
DuckDuckGo certainly does the trick for general web search, but like you I'm really tied in to Gmail/Talk/Reader for my personal life and Google Apps for Business for my work life. Unfortunately, replacing these isn't entirely up to me at this point and I imagine a lot of people are in this boat.
- mike_h 16y ago
  The only thing keeping me on gmail right now is the spam filter, which seems to be the best on the planet. Can anyone recommend an alternative filter? (been using DDG for search for about 6 months now, rarely if ever get better results on google)
  - ams6110 16y ago
    Do you really get that much spam? I've had the same email address since 1990, I use it pretty much everywhere, and I get maybe 10 spam emails a day, with no filters.
    - Pistos2 16y ago
      I find that extremely hard to believe. Do you have some very anomalous usage patterns, such as never using that address to register on websites, and never having it posted anywhere spider-crawlable on the Internet? I'd wager that an address that is bot-scrapable would soon see dozens of spam messages a day, if not much more.
- rufugee 16y ago
  I tried DDG for awhile, an honestly found the search results to be lacking compared to Google. YMMV.
ronnoch 16y ago
Seconded, plus if you do ever need to use Google, try http://scroogle.org http://scroogle.org or http://ixquick.com http://ixquick.com instead. Both anonymously scrape results from Google and don't keep records.
prs 16y ago
What is the ?t=mattc58 good for in the URL? Just curious.
- mattculbreth 16y ago
  A fun hack he put it to make a leaderboard of people who talk about DDG. It's at http://duckduckgo.com/spread.html http://duckduckgo.com/spread.html.
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jackowayed 16y ago
Seconding this. DDG is awesome. The zero-click info is often very nice, I love the keyboard shortcuts (though there's a google keyboard shortcuts experiment), and !bang[1] is really awesome. There's a bunch of other occasionally-useful goodies[2]. It'll do disambiguation if you search something with many meanings (eg. Ruby). Infinite pagination. I switched a month or 2 ago, and I've been very happy. And if I search for something and don't like the results, I hit / (the keyboard shortcut to select the text of the search box), hit right-arrow (to get my cursor to the end of the search box), add a "!g" to the end, and hit enter. And then I usually find that google's results are just as bad :) 1: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html 2: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
- mmmmax 16y ago
  !bang is the most useful search feature since I'm Feeling Lucky. I submitted this exact feature to Google years ago, and DuckDuckGo's implementation of it caused me to switch search engines.
  - epi0Bauqu 16y ago
    Thx! Note that we've had I'm Feeling Ducky through !bang for a while (!+space+sarch), but the last few days I've made it even easier. You can now do /+search, e.g. /slashdot or whatever. Also all the !bang commands now will take you right to the site if you don't follow them with a search, e.g. !a takes you to amazon.
    - mmmmax 16y ago
      Nice work, as usual, Gabriel.
- xiongchiamiov 16y ago
  Meh. I don't see the point of using !amazon, for instance, when I already have a search in firefox for the same thing. Just 'o a foo' (as I'm using vimperator) and I'm on amazon.
ElliotH 16y ago
I use DuckDuckGo for pretty much all my day to day searching. Sometimes if I'm looking for a very specific page I still use Google - but just sticking !g on the end of your search makes that very easy.

gphil 16y ago

DuckDuckGo certainly does the trick for general web search, but like you I'm really tied in to Gmail/Talk/Reader for my personal life and Google Apps for Business for my work life. Unfortunately, replacing these isn't entirely up to me at this point and I imagine a lot of people are in this boat.

mike_h 16y ago
The only thing keeping me on gmail right now is the spam filter, which seems to be the best on the planet. Can anyone recommend an alternative filter? (been using DDG for search for about 6 months now, rarely if ever get better results on google)
- ams6110 16y ago
  Do you really get that much spam? I've had the same email address since 1990, I use it pretty much everywhere, and I get maybe 10 spam emails a day, with no filters.
  - Pistos2 16y ago
    I find that extremely hard to believe. Do you have some very anomalous usage patterns, such as never using that address to register on websites, and never having it posted anywhere spider-crawlable on the Internet? I'd wager that an address that is bot-scrapable would soon see dozens of spam messages a day, if not much more.
rufugee 16y ago
I tried DDG for awhile, an honestly found the search results to be lacking compared to Google. YMMV.

ronnoch 16y ago

Seconded, plus if you do ever need to use Google, try http://scroogle.org http://scroogle.org or http://ixquick.com http://ixquick.com instead. Both anonymously scrape results from Google and don't keep records.

prs 16y ago

What is the ?t=mattc58 good for in the URL? Just curious.

mattculbreth 16y ago
A fun hack he put it to make a leaderboard of people who talk about DDG. It's at http://duckduckgo.com/spread.html http://duckduckgo.com/spread.html.
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jackowayed 16y ago

Seconding this. DDG is awesome. The zero-click info is often very nice, I love the keyboard shortcuts (though there's a google keyboard shortcuts experiment), and !bang[1] is really awesome. There's a bunch of other occasionally-useful goodies[2]. It'll do disambiguation if you search something with many meanings (eg. Ruby). Infinite pagination. I switched a month or 2 ago, and I've been very happy. And if I search for something and don't like the results, I hit / (the keyboard shortcut to select the text of the search box), hit right-arrow (to get my cursor to the end of the search box), add a "!g" to the end, and hit enter. And then I usually find that google's results are just as bad :) 1: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html 2: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html

mmmmax 16y ago
!bang is the most useful search feature since I'm Feeling Lucky. I submitted this exact feature to Google years ago, and DuckDuckGo's implementation of it caused me to switch search engines.
- epi0Bauqu 16y ago
  Thx! Note that we've had I'm Feeling Ducky through !bang for a while (!+space+sarch), but the last few days I've made it even easier. You can now do /+search, e.g. /slashdot or whatever. Also all the !bang commands now will take you right to the site if you don't follow them with a search, e.g. !a takes you to amazon.
  - mmmmax 16y ago
    Nice work, as usual, Gabriel.
xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Meh. I don't see the point of using !amazon, for instance, when I already have a search in firefox for the same thing. Just 'o a foo' (as I'm using vimperator) and I'm on amazon.

ElliotH 16y ago

I use DuckDuckGo for pretty much all my day to day searching. Sometimes if I'm looking for a very specific page I still use Google - but just sticking !g on the end of your search makes that very easy.