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Is it worth the switching costs of going from google to duckduckgo?

• macintux 9y ago
  One of the many nice features of DDG is that you can fall back to Google searches trivially enough by adding a "!g" at the front of your search results. The bang syntax also works for directing searches to YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. I value my privacy, so the few times I have to redirect a search to Google is a small price to pay. Definitely recommend making the switch. (Of course, if Google already knows everything about you, you'll probably find their results much better tuned for you, so YMMV. I was quite amused and pleased when all the suggested search completions for—IIRC—"git" in a recent DDG search were completely irrelevant to me.)
  • cpeterso 9y ago
    You can also use "!sp" to get Google search results anonymized by startpage.com.