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Same here. I finally took the plunge and replaced google with ddg in my browser omnibar last week. After a couple of days I switched back after having to sear
by on_and_off 7y ago
Same here.
I finally took the plunge and replaced google with ddg in my browser omnibar last week.
After a couple of days I switched back after having to search on google too many times.
- jay_kyburz 7y agoI switched to DDG a few years ago. I think what I found was that I started being more specific in my search terms. I think its because Google has a profile about me that it applies to my searches but DDG doesn't know as much about me. So for example, I might search for a class name and Googole will know what language / environment I'm working it, but I'll need to tell that to DDG when searching.
- on_and_off 7y agoTrue ! Recently this has become pretty annoying in some cases : if I search the name of a sports team even though I mean something totally different, Google will start sending me notifications about that team. To make it worse, how to remove that team from your 'interests' is a bit convoluted. I also have to go out of my way to make google understand that I am sometimes looking for a result in my native language (I live abroad). Most of the time it is on point though. It does indeed seem that it taylors dev questions to the languages I use or more generally my interests. If this kind of logic could be somehow stored on device instead of being something that Google (or Apple or whatever other company I don't have infinite trust in) owns, that would be a killer search product.