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I use Google on my desktop and iPad, and DDG on my iPhone due to Google AMP. While I find that DDG is pretty good for anything work related (e.g. programming s
by Eric_WVGG 7y ago
I use Google on my desktop and iPad, and DDG on my iPhone due to Google AMP.
While I find that DDG is pretty good for anything work related (e.g. programming stuff), it’s mostly worthless for things like "best chinese food in [some neighborhood]" or "shop cord knit stockings"… ironically, exactly the kind of stuff I gravitate toward my phone for.
- neltnerb 7y agoI suppose it's not surprising that DDG is weaker in areas where Google has leveraged their products from other markets to enhance their search results. Well "markets" loosely since advertisers are the actual market, but I mean discrete products. Google has Google Maps. That's why Google can find the best Chinese food in your neighborhood, it's learned to interpret that as a semi-map query right? They also have ads, which means cleaner data on who sells what right? DDG to me seems to be great for when I need to search for keywords rather than a concept or multi-dimensional query for which DDG doesn't have the other n dimensions of source data.
- krtkush 7y agoFor me, on iPhone Siri handles these kind of contextual questions for me while DDG takes care of other generic stuff.