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I've been using DDG for a few years now and I have the reflex to immediately add "!g" after a query if I don't find what I'm looking for in the first screen of
by simias 9y ago
I've been using DDG for a few years now and I have the reflex to immediately add "!g" after a query if I don't find what I'm looking for in the first screen of results. Nowadays I notice more and more that when DDG doesn't find what I'm looking for then google often doesn't either. I think the duck is pretty mature now, at least for my use cases.
That being said I don't fool myself, DDG is free which means that if it ever becomes really mainstream it's going to turn "evil" at some point in order to monetize the users one way or an other. Let me pay for your bloody service, add a few gizmo premium features if you have to. I want to be the client, not the product.
- kristianc 9y agoPeople forget that Google was an enormously profitable business even when the tracking part of its operation was in its infancy. Search ads sold by intent will always be valuable
- dingaling 9y agoThe bang-notation still irks me, it's like it is negating the g to indicate 'not Google results'
- majewsky 9y agoFor me, the urge to "!g" has considerably weakened over the last few months (I've switched to DDG as daily driver about a year ago). So either they got a lot better in that time, or the subconscious part of my brain that composes search queries is gradient-descending into a local optimum without me noticing.