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I'll second this. DDG has been my default for 2+ years. Google is better for obscure topics that lack good keywords to find them by. I usually know when I need
by 0x38B 7y ago
I'll second this. DDG has been my default for 2+ years.
Google is better for obscure topics that lack good keywords to find them by. I usually know when I need to '!g'.
- klingonopera 7y agoWhat's great about this is that we're still telling DDG what searches we need to do on Google, so they have plenty of diagnostic data available to better their searches (as opposed to skipping DDG entirely). I do have one nitpick though: I clear all private data, and recently I was forced to get along with 16 kbit bandwidth (yes, slower than 56K, and yes, I spent a lot of time on HN for obvious reasons), and DDG definitely loads more data than Google for a query. Google needed maybe 20 seconds to load a page, DDG IIRC just timed out after some point. I'm guessing it's JS-frameworks?
- lonelappde 7y agoAnd ddg can improve its results by slurping in Google's #1 result for every !g query, like Bing got caught doing.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoDDG does have a lite HTML version of their site that is much faster. https://duckduckgo.com/lite https://duckduckgo.com/lite