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Not as good as google, but it still makes sense to make it (or something else) your default search engine for those 99% of times it actually works just fine.
by dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
Not as good as google, but it still makes sense to make it (or something else) your default search engine for those 99% of times it actually works just fine.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoBut it doesn't work fine 99%. I tried to find a short story I read awhile ago, so I DDG'ed for "Berryman Parrot". DDG helpfully suggests a bunch of unrelated videos - a Coldplay video, a Tyler, The Creator sketch from the Eric Andrew show, and something about a C-line fencing tool. The actual search results are vaguely related, since the first one is a youtube video about birds with someone named Berryman in the description. The next one is a bird rescue, and the third appears to be some sort of etsy shop. Compare to Google. The first result is the Wikipedia entry for the exact story I was searching for. The second result is the full published story. The third is a related story set in the same universe. Google then shows me some image results, and bam, the second one is actually related to the short story! Sorry, DDG. You just don't cut it for my needs.
- dmitryminkovsky 8y agoUsually if there’s a Wikipedia article for a phrase it’s among the first hits for me.