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I've been using DuckDuckGo for more than a year now and barely use other search engines. It's the default on all the devices that I use. I am so happy to be a

I've been using DuckDuckGo for more than a year now and barely use other search engines. It's the default on all the devices that I use. I am so happy to be a user and be part of their growth as well. The only thing that could improve it would be searches in other languages, I still don't get a good result when I search in other languages such as Russian, Persian, Arabic, etc.. Thank you DuckDuckGo for the great service <3

jwilcoxson 8y ago
I’ve also been all-in on DuckDuckGo for over a year now. I feel like it always gives me good results. I only speak English, but better support for other languages would be fantastic for those who can benefit from it.
- Alir3z4 8y ago
  I mainly search in English as well, but when trying to find local news, books or part of a song lyrics in different language it doesn't perform as other search engines would perform.
wool_gather 8y ago
Same, very happy using DDG. I hope they're becoming profitable. The one thing that I have to go back to Google for is when I want to search just one specific site (usually Stack Overflow, I guess). Google has the `site:example.com` feature. I don't think that's possible with DDG. EDIT: Apparently it does work! Thanks, I'm pretty sure it didn't when I started using DDG. Maybe I'm just an idiot.
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  !so searches stack overflow, !im images, !g google, !w wikipedia etc. Take a look at bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang there's thousands of them.
  - wool_gather 8y ago
    That's a good point, thanks for reminding me about bangs. The one issue with them is that they're assigned by DDG (i.e., not free-form). (I don't think there was one for Stack when I started using DDG, and I never thought to check back.)
  - froogie 8y ago
    For me, bangs are the actual killer feature. Because when I set DDG as my default search engine in my browser, I get to use bangs at the address bar. So for example rather than having to use Wikipedia's or Stack Overflow's search bar to find something, it's just Ctrl+t and "!w <term>" or "!gi <term>". On Windows this is quite 50-50 -- you're likely holding the mouse anyway. On Unix machines with more keyboard-oriented UI, with say a tiling WM, things like bangs at browser address bar are a godsent. Of course it is nice on mobile too -- direct queries rather than hoppping around using clumsy touchscreen. There are likely browser extensions for this though, but none of them set DDG as their default search engine -- so just doing that manually also gives you the bangs so in my book DDG wins here ;)
    - dash2 8y ago
      Firefox lets you set up search keywords, which to match the same thing. They used to be hidden away, but more recently they’ve got promoted a bit and are quite easy to set up.
      - tordanik 8y ago
        Firefox search keywords are awesome! They can be much shorter than bangs because there's no need to avoid name conflicts with thousands of sites you aren't using. Plus, no exclamation mark, and you can use them for sites at work which aren't publicly visible.
    - pbhjpbhj 8y ago
      I don't get it, I've been using the native equivalent "forever", aka keywords, you just get to set your own, and don't need to use ! (but you can't put them at the end, which has utility on DDG).
- katet 8y ago
  It does in fact support "site:xyz.com" queries, and displays a UI reminder that you're limiting results to that domain
  - wool_gather 8y ago
    Nice, thank you! Either I am an idiot (entirely possible), or this was added at some point and I never re-tried.
- clubm8 8y ago
  > Same, very happy using DDG. I hope they're becoming profitable. It's my understanding they are profitable, a large chunk being things like Amazon referrals (nontrackable). They may not have as many users but they also have much lower overhead since they don't need vast teams of engineers working on new ways of slicing and dicing data.
simias 8y ago
It's true, English language results are good enough for me but I have to switch to Google when I want to search for something specifically in French.
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jwilcoxson 8y ago

I’ve also been all-in on DuckDuckGo for over a year now. I feel like it always gives me good results. I only speak English, but better support for other languages would be fantastic for those who can benefit from it.

Alir3z4 8y ago
I mainly search in English as well, but when trying to find local news, books or part of a song lyrics in different language it doesn't perform as other search engines would perform.

wool_gather 8y ago

Same, very happy using DDG. I hope they're becoming profitable. The one thing that I have to go back to Google for is when I want to search just one specific site (usually Stack Overflow, I guess). Google has the `site:example.com` feature. I don't think that's possible with DDG. EDIT: Apparently it does work! Thanks, I'm pretty sure it didn't when I started using DDG. Maybe I'm just an idiot.

NeedMoreTea 8y ago
!so searches stack overflow, !im images, !g google, !w wikipedia etc. Take a look at bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang there's thousands of them.
- wool_gather 8y ago
  That's a good point, thanks for reminding me about bangs. The one issue with them is that they're assigned by DDG (i.e., not free-form). (I don't think there was one for Stack when I started using DDG, and I never thought to check back.)
- froogie 8y ago
  For me, bangs are the actual killer feature. Because when I set DDG as my default search engine in my browser, I get to use bangs at the address bar. So for example rather than having to use Wikipedia's or Stack Overflow's search bar to find something, it's just Ctrl+t and "!w <term>" or "!gi <term>". On Windows this is quite 50-50 -- you're likely holding the mouse anyway. On Unix machines with more keyboard-oriented UI, with say a tiling WM, things like bangs at browser address bar are a godsent. Of course it is nice on mobile too -- direct queries rather than hoppping around using clumsy touchscreen. There are likely browser extensions for this though, but none of them set DDG as their default search engine -- so just doing that manually also gives you the bangs so in my book DDG wins here ;)
  - dash2 8y ago
    Firefox lets you set up search keywords, which to match the same thing. They used to be hidden away, but more recently they’ve got promoted a bit and are quite easy to set up.
    - tordanik 8y ago
      Firefox search keywords are awesome! They can be much shorter than bangs because there's no need to avoid name conflicts with thousands of sites you aren't using. Plus, no exclamation mark, and you can use them for sites at work which aren't publicly visible.
  - pbhjpbhj 8y ago
    I don't get it, I've been using the native equivalent "forever", aka keywords, you just get to set your own, and don't need to use ! (but you can't put them at the end, which has utility on DDG).
katet 8y ago
It does in fact support "site:xyz.com" queries, and displays a UI reminder that you're limiting results to that domain
- wool_gather 8y ago
  Nice, thank you! Either I am an idiot (entirely possible), or this was added at some point and I never re-tried.
clubm8 8y ago
> Same, very happy using DDG. I hope they're becoming profitable. It's my understanding they are profitable, a large chunk being things like Amazon referrals (nontrackable). They may not have as many users but they also have much lower overhead since they don't need vast teams of engineers working on new ways of slicing and dicing data.

simias 8y ago

It's true, English language results are good enough for me but I have to switch to Google when I want to search for something specifically in French.

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