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I've been using DDG almost exclusively for quite a while now. I love the bangs feature, frequently using !w for wikipedia, and !wa for wolfram-alpha, along with
by snailmailman 7y ago
I've been using DDG almost exclusively for quite a while now. I love the bangs feature, frequently using !w for wikipedia, and !wa for wolfram-alpha, along with several others.
I always see anecdotes from people who use !g a lot. I guess thats never a habit I got into. Maybe i can just never tell when my search has given "bad" results, but I've never felt like something was missing. I don't think I've purposefully done a google search for quite some time now.
The last few times I have done a google search, (mainly on systems that still have google as the default) I have gotten almost exclusively AMP pages as the results. I never see this with DDG and its given me a reason to stay away from google.
Interestingly one of the ways i still end up on google is the "spotlight search", or whatever the system search is called on iOS. It occasionally has a "show google results" button, separate from the "search web" button. It only ever appears sometimes, and its weird that its ever there at all considering DDG is my default search in Safari. When it is there I sometimes tap it on accident, because its always above the "search web" that I'd like to use.