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It's funny, the first time I tried to switch to DDG, I couldn't make it stick. I eventually realized it was because I was frustrated by the lack of sports repor

It's funny, the first time I tried to switch to DDG, I couldn't make it stick. I eventually realized it was because I was frustrated by the lack of sports reporting carousels, which is admittedly a very silly reason. I simply changed my behavior to use a sports website directly for those queries, and DDG has been totally sufficient for everything else.

ForHackernews 6y ago
Parts of DuckDuckGo are open source, so you might be able add your own sports results to their "zero click answers": https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
- ForHackernews 6y ago
  Nevermind, it's deprecated. :(
- rurp 6y ago
  I like the idea of contributing to DDG but that repo doesn't seem to be in active development. If anyone knows of other ways to contribute code to DDG I (and probably others) would be interested.
riffraff 6y ago
it was the same for me, now I directly type !g whatever and get to them on google. It's good enough.
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
  Did that a lot, but honestly, these days I find google unusable. The add section at the top seems to be steadily creeping down, replacing more and more actual search results; googles attempt to remove URLs from the web annoys me to no end because I often go by URI more than by title and the fact that DDG has the sites favicon next to the URI oh boy that's a useful feature. In fact, I'd say favicons are what I go for 80% of the time; and using google I just feel like I'm completely blind. The additional clutter (top stories, twitter links, etc.) only make it even harder to visually parse what I want. And then there's DDGs option to quickly switch to results in germany and back to international, depending on what I need.
  - cercatrova 6y ago
    Interesting, I don't think I've seen an ad on Google (or anywhere, really) in years. I've been using uBlock Origin on desktop and mobile (Kiwi Browser on Android, as well as AdGuard).
    - DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
      I only have uMatrix, which blocks most annoying iframe ads, but doesn't target things like googles ad results which are part of the page itself. Googles ads are actually quite nice in that they aren't flashy images, but they do appear like normal search results. It's the same for DDG, but there the ads have a big "AD" in a box behind the title; meanwhile in google it's way harder to visually parse what you want to click on.
      - cercatrova 6y ago
        You should definitely use uBlock Origin as well then, as it completely blocks all search ads.

ForHackernews 6y ago

Parts of DuckDuckGo are open source, so you might be able add your own sports results to their "zero click answers": https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies

ForHackernews 6y ago
Nevermind, it's deprecated. :(
rurp 6y ago
I like the idea of contributing to DDG but that repo doesn't seem to be in active development. If anyone knows of other ways to contribute code to DDG I (and probably others) would be interested.

riffraff 6y ago

it was the same for me, now I directly type !g whatever and get to them on google. It's good enough.

DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
Did that a lot, but honestly, these days I find google unusable. The add section at the top seems to be steadily creeping down, replacing more and more actual search results; googles attempt to remove URLs from the web annoys me to no end because I often go by URI more than by title and the fact that DDG has the sites favicon next to the URI oh boy that's a useful feature. In fact, I'd say favicons are what I go for 80% of the time; and using google I just feel like I'm completely blind. The additional clutter (top stories, twitter links, etc.) only make it even harder to visually parse what I want. And then there's DDGs option to quickly switch to results in germany and back to international, depending on what I need.
- cercatrova 6y ago
  Interesting, I don't think I've seen an ad on Google (or anywhere, really) in years. I've been using uBlock Origin on desktop and mobile (Kiwi Browser on Android, as well as AdGuard).
  - DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
    I only have uMatrix, which blocks most annoying iframe ads, but doesn't target things like googles ad results which are part of the page itself. Googles ads are actually quite nice in that they aren't flashy images, but they do appear like normal search results. It's the same for DDG, but there the ads have a big "AD" in a box behind the title; meanwhile in google it's way harder to visually parse what you want to click on.
    - cercatrova 6y ago
      You should definitely use uBlock Origin as well then, as it completely blocks all search ads.