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That's great if it works for you, but doesn't match my experience. I've been using DDG for years now, and rarely bother with Google any more. If I can't find
by jlarocco 7y ago
That's great if it works for you, but doesn't match my experience. I've been using DDG for years now, and rarely bother with Google any more. If I can't find what I need with DDG I have better luck with Bing than with Google.
- 1123581321 7y agoThe simplest explanation is that you don’t know how good Google is anymore. I use DDG because I think it’s important and have family members doing it too, but it costs us time when we search because the search completion is poor and the results aren’t as intelligent as I expect. Perhaps maintaining those expectations is my problem to solve, but that does not make the product’s deficiencies go away.
- macintux 7y agoIs Google that effective if you’re not logged in? I try not to give them any more hooks into my privacy than I need to, so I never search while logged in.
- 1123581321 7y agoYes, because their search completion is very good, they still have great local data if you give them a city or a zip, and they’re better at inferring what you meant to search for when you make a mistake.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 7y agoThe amount of user-specific customisation Google does is generally overrated. For the vast majority of searches, I see only minor shifts in ranking when comparing logged-in to anonymous. Case in Point: [crystal] currently gives me meth and stones before programming, even though I have done quite a few programming-related (and even crystal-lang specific) searches.
- jlarocco 7y agoThat could be. Unless I'm actually using it, I block all requests to Google servers. I have good enough results with DDG and Bing that it's not worth enabling Google's spyware.