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Search results quality is decreasing (which is just my personal speculation, DDG is usually retrieves less polluted results). My experience is that DDG results
by throwaway5752 8y ago
Search results quality is decreasing (which is just my personal speculation, DDG is usually retrieves less polluted results).
My experience is that DDG results are terrible. I try it periodically and never lasts more than a day. Has that changed?
- MattyRad 8y agoI should clarify, google is rife with visual noise, especially for simple queries. As an example, try googling "how to clean rain gutters" in both search engines. You'll need to scroll half down the page, past "Suggested Clip", past "People also ask", past "Videos", to finally arrive at the 1st search result. DDG also shows videos, but doesn't require scrolling. EDIT: I forgot about ads because I use an ad blocker! If you don't use an ad-blocker, you'll also have to scroll past a large section of ads.
- fixermark 8y agoI think you're perceiving some signal as noise. For me personally, that "Suggested Clip" is what I'd be searching for.
- newscracker 8y agoFor me DDG is still nowhere close to Google, but I wouldn't classify it as terrible in general. Also, DDG doesn't have searching by date range and doesn't have searching for recent results beyond one month. What I do is use DDG as my default, and then progressively use the bang commands [1] to move to Startpage with !s and then to Google with !g. Sometimes it takes a little longer to find something, but I try to avoid using Google search directly as much as possible. [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- Zarath 8y agoIt is definitely not as good, especially for certain queries. Those tend to be queries that have additional semantic meaning outside of just the keywords typed.
- wama 8y agoI find it good enough for day-to-day use. I do switch to Google when it doesn't work. !g in DDG does a Google search, so it's pretty easy.