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Unfortunately, I think your results will be heavily skewed in a place like Hacker News, which may or may not be what you want. So far, half of the replies are

by rocgf 8y ago

Unfortunately, I think your results will be heavily skewed in a place like Hacker News, which may or may not be what you want. So far, half of the replies are about DuckDuckGo, which doesn't even account for 0.1% of all searches globally. Personally, I've switched to DDG about 2 weeks ago and it's been pretty much seamless. This depends mostly on what I search for; if it's something very specific, Google will provide better results. However, a lot of the time I simply search for standalone topics that do not require a lot of context, like 'Japan GDP' or 'blue shark'. In these cases, DDG is just as good as Google, given that you simply open the first result anyway. I'd love to see more people switch to DDG, but most people simply don't care or are not tech savvy enough to understand how much tracking Google does.

coatmatter 8y ago
I believe this isn't wasn't intended to be a broad survey representative of the population, but one for the hn audience in case there might now be something better than DDG/Bing/Google. I mostly use DDG but !bing seems to work better with code, and !gi seems more comprehensive with images (plus, I trust Google to being better with images...)
oelmekki 8y ago
Even for HN, this discussion will probably be biased, anyway : if you use an underdog like DDG, you probably are more willing to let people know about that than if you use plain old google search. That being said, a discussion about searching habits is always interesting. Eg, comment from user "NewEntryHN" is both unexpected and an interesting point of view.
newscracker 8y ago
Most people don't know that there are other options. Even among those, most people choose Google because they believe it's good and because they're are used to it. Google being the default search engine in many browser deployments across platforms and countries also cements its position further among the common crowd.

by rocgf 8y ago

coatmatter 8y ago

I believe this isn't wasn't intended to be a broad survey representative of the population, but one for the hn audience in case there might now be something better than DDG/Bing/Google. I mostly use DDG but !bing seems to work better with code, and !gi seems more comprehensive with images (plus, I trust Google to being better with images...)

oelmekki 8y ago

Even for HN, this discussion will probably be biased, anyway : if you use an underdog like DDG, you probably are more willing to let people know about that than if you use plain old google search. That being said, a discussion about searching habits is always interesting. Eg, comment from user "NewEntryHN" is both unexpected and an interesting point of view.

newscracker 8y ago

Most people don't know that there are other options. Even among those, most people choose Google because they believe it's good and because they're are used to it. Google being the default search engine in many browser deployments across platforms and countries also cements its position further among the common crowd.