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Switched to DDG for my defaults over a year ago now. Still occasionally have to append a !g to my search, and Google Maps is still unmatched, but for run of the
by jjordan 8y ago
Switched to DDG for my defaults over a year ago now. Still occasionally have to append a !g to my search, and Google Maps is still unmatched, but for run of the mill searches it's been working out. Google lost my trust, so if I can avoid using a service of theirs with a viable alternative, I do so. Go, OpenStreetMap!!
- jeherr 8y agoI’ve switched over recently too. I’m slowly removing Google from my life as much as I reasonably can. The one thing I can’t find an alternative for is Google Scholar. I’ve never found another half decent search engine for research journals. The fact that I can get references formatted pretty consistently for BibTeX right from Google Scholar is a big plus.
- mattlondon 8y agoSame situation here - the vast majority of my day-to-day searching has been handled by DDG for the past few years without any issues apart from the odd !g search for really specific things (that google is not much better for either).
- saagarjha 8y ago> Go, OpenStreetMap!! Didn’t DuckDuckGo switch off of OpenStreetMap to Apple Maps recently?
- DavideNL 8y ago> Google lost my trust you might want to try occasionally using !sp instead of !g -> same results, no google.
- kasbah 8y agoJust !s will do actually.