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I use DDG exclusively, and many of my searches are technical. I haven't found any cases where DDG fails to find something that Google finds. I'm not suggesting
by JoshTriplett 6y ago
I use DDG exclusively, and many of my searches are technical. I haven't found any cases where DDG fails to find something that Google finds.
I'm not suggesting that it never happens, but it's certainly not anywhere close to 90%, or even 9%.
- iso1631 6y agoThe main reason I occasionally venture into google is for news -- "!gn something specific" can return better results if I'm looking for a specific article I recall seeing a couple of weeks ago. That said there's also far more rubbish in the google news source, it's far less useful on the whole than DDG, but occasionally it reveals the right result.
- JoshTriplett 6y agoAh, that makes sense. I've generally found what I wanted via the DDG news search, but I haven't used it enough to seriously evaluate its quality, unlike the main search engine. I've also had reasonably good luck with "past week" or "past month" searches on DDG, but those aren't news-specific.