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>but sadly Google Search and YouTube still don't have good enough alternatives yet. I thought that, too, but then I held my breath and just switched to DuckDuc
by nothis 7y ago
>but sadly Google Search and YouTube still don't have good enough alternatives yet.
I thought that, too, but then I held my breath and just switched to DuckDuckGo as my main search engine and... there's no difference, really. Maybe some niche cases where google spits out more specific results and handles exact quotes better. But for 99% of "type a word, get results" kind of uses, it works great. I did not expect that, maybe still burnt from when Google was so far ahead of the competition in search it wasn't even a question.
Youtube is a different story but I don't really miss anything not logging in, so there's that.
- narrator 7y agoIf duckduckgo doesn't do a good search you can always type "g! <search>" and it will search using google. I usually search duckduckgo first and then fall back to Google. The thing that made me quit google was the "controversial twiddler"[1] and their delisting of non corporate health sites[2]. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20723327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20723327 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676755
- jvzr 7y agoI've been using DDG for literal years now, and whenever (rarely) I use Google for a search, I'm completely befuddled by Google Search's user experience. There's stuff everywhere: vertical lists, horizontal lists, thumbnails, chevrons, cards, blocks, drop shadows. DDG is just no-nonsense: a list of web results, like Google was then. For that alone, it wins my heart. Though, privacy is the main reason I use DDG.