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If we are comparing anecdotes, like in this article, DDG is still not good enough for me for certain kinds of queries. My default search engine is DDG, but even
by newscracker 7y ago
If we are comparing anecdotes, like in this article, DDG is still not good enough for me for certain kinds of queries. My default search engine is DDG, but even today I had to switch to startpage (!s) for some searches. IIRC, these were just some searches related to some themes and features of Ghost (the publishing platform), Hugo (static site generator), etc. In my daily use, I still rely on startpage, and the next level, which is Google (!g), to get to what I need.
Forget about instant answers and similar things. DDG’s index of the web is not as vast as Google’s...or maybe it is but it’s unable to figure out relevance as well as Google does.
I still recommend DDG to people and tell them about a few bang commands. But as of today, DDG is not something I can totally rely on within the scope of its search results.
The new Edge browser from Microsoft uses Bing as the default search engine. It works better than DDG for several cases (for me), but whenever it doesn’t, I miss the bang commands that make the act of performing the same search on another engine so quick and easy.