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I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few months since I switched to the new Firefox. It's generally OK but I can tell that the results are just ever so slightly wo

I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few months since I switched to the new Firefox. It's generally OK but I can tell that the results are just ever so slightly worse than Google. I get irrelevant results and old results. It's just obviously not nearly as smart and that's probably because it doesn't know as much about me as Google does.

bambataa 9y ago
DDG is usually good enough but I do find myself dropping back to Google for some searches (easy enough with !g). It does make clear how tailored Google searches are to the user. For example, when I search for programming terms that have non-programming meanings (library names etc) I get a much more diverse list. Google pretty much exclusively only shows me programming-related results. With DDG I need to add my location to the search rather than relying on Google knowing my exact address. I do find DDG location search very annoying as clicking on a map result always tries to open it in the Maps application, which I don't want.