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I think I mentally give DDG a harder time than it deserves. When I search something and don't see the result I want I think "Wow ddg is shit, I'll try this on g

I think I mentally give DDG a harder time than it deserves. When I search something and don't see the result I want I think "Wow ddg is shit, I'll try this on google" And then I still don't see what I want and think "The info I am looking for doesn't exist or my search was wrong" Despite both failing I tend to be a lot more lenient to google.

AJ007 7y ago
Bing and Yandex are worth trying too. I just had a total failure from a Google search yesterday, where the official site for a piece of software wasn’t on the first 3 pages. I went over to bing and it was #1. I’m getting to the point where I predict a search will fail on google and I go to another engine. This never happened before, even in the Demand Media content farm debacle where horse shit ehow ranking for millions of major keywords. I’ve been using the web since the best option was Yahoo’s hand curated directories. Google is in really serious trouble. These search engine switches happen very quickly, as soon as one of them is showing better results, the switch happens abruptly and it’s one way.
- dfrankow 7y ago
  Isn't ddg Bing results?
  - frosted-flakes 7y ago
    DDG has their own crawler, but they augment results using Yandex and perhaps Bing too.
    - IndexPointer 7y ago
      I remember reading that it uses only Bing for web results and their crawler for Wikipedia only.
      - kube-system 7y ago
        I know they (at least used to) use some results from Yandex
  - klingonopera 7y ago
    Quite sure Qwant does, but DDG does appear to have their own unique results. For your convenience: https://www.google.com/search?q=keris https://www.google.com/search?q=keris https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keris https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keris https://www.bing.com/search?q=keris https://www.bing.com/search?q=keris https://www.qwant.com/?q=keris https://www.qwant.com/?q=keris https://yandex.com/search/?text=keris https://yandex.com/search/?text=keris
    - Kiro 7y ago
      Try "what is my ip" and you will see that DDG displays 207.46.13.131 in the cached snippets, which is Microsoft Bingbot and also the same IP that Bing shows in their cached snippets.
tsumnia 7y ago
I think this is a great mentality to have. If I look back to the "Before Google Days", I was using Yahoo Search, AOL Search, whatever other search engines that existed. And not to sound like a cranky old man not hip with the kids these days, but having to shop around for what you're looking for doesn't seem like a bad thing to train the kids these days to do... now get off my lawn.

AJ007 7y ago

Bing and Yandex are worth trying too. I just had a total failure from a Google search yesterday, where the official site for a piece of software wasn’t on the first 3 pages. I went over to bing and it was #1. I’m getting to the point where I predict a search will fail on google and I go to another engine. This never happened before, even in the Demand Media content farm debacle where horse shit ehow ranking for millions of major keywords. I’ve been using the web since the best option was Yahoo’s hand curated directories. Google is in really serious trouble. These search engine switches happen very quickly, as soon as one of them is showing better results, the switch happens abruptly and it’s one way.

dfrankow 7y ago
Isn't ddg Bing results?
- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  DDG has their own crawler, but they augment results using Yandex and perhaps Bing too.
  - IndexPointer 7y ago
    I remember reading that it uses only Bing for web results and their crawler for Wikipedia only.
    - kube-system 7y ago
      I know they (at least used to) use some results from Yandex
- klingonopera 7y ago
  Quite sure Qwant does, but DDG does appear to have their own unique results. For your convenience: https://www.google.com/search?q=keris https://www.google.com/search?q=keris https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keris https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keris https://www.bing.com/search?q=keris https://www.bing.com/search?q=keris https://www.qwant.com/?q=keris https://www.qwant.com/?q=keris https://yandex.com/search/?text=keris https://yandex.com/search/?text=keris
  - Kiro 7y ago
    Try "what is my ip" and you will see that DDG displays 207.46.13.131 in the cached snippets, which is Microsoft Bingbot and also the same IP that Bing shows in their cached snippets.

tsumnia 7y ago

I think this is a great mentality to have. If I look back to the "Before Google Days", I was using Yahoo Search, AOL Search, whatever other search engines that existed. And not to sound like a cranky old man not hip with the kids these days, but having to shop around for what you're looking for doesn't seem like a bad thing to train the kids these days to do... now get off my lawn.