4 ms·
I use DuckDuckGo as the primary browser on my phone so I don’t accidentally search things on my corporate Google account and I can say the DDG is demonstrably w
by thethethethe 7y ago
I use DuckDuckGo as the primary browser on my phone so I don’t accidentally search things on my corporate Google account and I can say the DDG is demonstrably worse in many situations.
If you have no idea how to spell a complex word, you can type absolute gibberish into Google and it will know what you meant. DDG will figure it out sometimes but less frequently.
Google also has better answer cards than DDG. Try searching “Facebook revenue” on DDG and Google. Google gives you the answer and DDG shows you nothing.
The notion that DDG is better than Google, which is only ever evangelized in these HN threads, is delusional idealism. Sure, DDG has some nice features (namely not being Google), but suggesting that it is better than Google and that the billions of unwashed masses are wrong about Google is silly and kind of elitist.