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I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more rele

I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more relevant results with google.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
Just !g when you search on duckduckgo. The best part of duckduckgo is being able to append commands as to where you want to search. !yt takes your search to youtube, !gi to google images and theres a longer list somewhere for even more sites.
- oytis 8y ago
  What's the advantage of !g over searching directly from google?
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    I wind up using DDG as a search terminal basically. I just type to get to any type of search site not just google specific ones.
Kiro 8y ago
> I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. You should root for Microsoft then and for Bing to succeed. Also in some regards Yahoo and Yandex (the two other search engines that DDG aggregates results from).
- vezycash 8y ago
  >You should root for Microsoft Bing to succeed. Those paying attention would notice a difference in Google's attitude to the AOSP since WP died. IOS's a slight threat. For search, Bing's the only "real" competition. If it dies, Google will at best, force DGG, startpage... to include tracking and Adsense. Or simply, track through Chrome. A few billions in the right pocket will shut EU up. So don't count on their intervention. Let's Bing at least twice in a year.
clubm8 8y ago
> I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more relevant results with google. Why not stick with DDG and only fall back to google with the !g bang command when it fails?
- move-on-by 8y ago
  Even better, only fall back to StartPage (google proxy) with the !s bang command when it fails. Same google results, less the tracking
Flow 8y ago
I've used DDG for close to a year now and every time I go to google.com and search it feels like a bloaty Yahoo style web. I've also noticed that when I don't get the results I want on DDG and try Google instead, it too gives me bad results. Probably a sign I should use some other words in my query.
TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Can you give some examples of searches that you felt provided significantly more relevant results with google? I see people say this on occasion, and it was absolutely true some years back. But now a days that does not seem to be the case, at least not for the things that I search for. Perhaps my searches are biased in some way, or perhaps yours are. Mostly, I'm just quite curious and would like to see it with my own eyes.
- Semaphor 8y ago
  I'm pretty happy with DDG as well, but someone provided an example further up: Mastodon API. On Google it gives the API docs, on DDG it doesn't.

I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more relevant results with google.

giancarlostoro 8y ago

Just !g when you search on duckduckgo. The best part of duckduckgo is being able to append commands as to where you want to search. !yt takes your search to youtube, !gi to google images and theres a longer list somewhere for even more sites.

oytis 8y ago
What's the advantage of !g over searching directly from google?
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I wind up using DDG as a search terminal basically. I just type to get to any type of search site not just google specific ones.

Kiro 8y ago

> I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. You should root for Microsoft then and for Bing to succeed. Also in some regards Yahoo and Yandex (the two other search engines that DDG aggregates results from).

vezycash 8y ago
>You should root for Microsoft Bing to succeed. Those paying attention would notice a difference in Google's attitude to the AOSP since WP died. IOS's a slight threat. For search, Bing's the only "real" competition. If it dies, Google will at best, force DGG, startpage... to include tracking and Adsense. Or simply, track through Chrome. A few billions in the right pocket will shut EU up. So don't count on their intervention. Let's Bing at least twice in a year.

clubm8 8y ago

> I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more relevant results with google. Why not stick with DDG and only fall back to google with the !g bang command when it fails?

move-on-by 8y ago
Even better, only fall back to StartPage (google proxy) with the !s bang command when it fails. Same google results, less the tracking

Flow 8y ago

I've used DDG for close to a year now and every time I go to google.com and search it feels like a bloaty Yahoo style web. I've also noticed that when I don't get the results I want on DDG and try Google instead, it too gives me bad results. Probably a sign I should use some other words in my query.

TangoTrotFox 8y ago

Can you give some examples of searches that you felt provided significantly more relevant results with google? I see people say this on occasion, and it was absolutely true some years back. But now a days that does not seem to be the case, at least not for the things that I search for. Perhaps my searches are biased in some way, or perhaps yours are. Mostly, I'm just quite curious and would like to see it with my own eyes.

Semaphor 8y ago
I'm pretty happy with DDG as well, but someone provided an example further up: Mastodon API. On Google it gives the API docs, on DDG it doesn't.