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I switched to DDG mostly, and nowadays its results are great for most cases. Imo Google is a habit to break.
by prox 6y ago
I switched to DDG mostly, and nowadays its results are great for most cases. Imo Google is a habit to break.
- LoSboccacc 6y agoI switched to DDG a while back when I jumped out of chrome when was threatening adblockers, but I'm not always satisfied with the search results: it's great if I know what I want to search (i.e. I know the field and the keywords and I need the specifics) but when I don't know what I want to search I can't use it for discovery (i.e. when learning new things and I lack the terminology)
- matham 6y agoI have been using DDG a little more frequently recently, however, it's image search was useless whenever I tried it.
- throwaway47380 6y agoFunnily enough, my experience is that the best image search engine is Yandex's. E.g. searching for a page from a comic with Google just gives me random comics, but Yandex's will more often find that exact comic.
- chris_f 6y agoAlso, Yandex has an reverse image search [0] that works for faces. It's a little creepy, but an interesting tool to find similar looking pictures of people. [0] https://yandex.com/images/ https://yandex.com/images/
- burgerrito 6y agoThe problem with DDG is that it doesn't do really well for non-English results. I use DDG now, but sometimes I do have to use !g to redirect to Google.
- Akronymus 6y agoThe bangs are one of the main draws of DDG for me. Besides not being google.
- itsmeamario 6y agoDDG. Come looking for anonymity, stay for the bangs.
- ignoramous 6y agoI used https://lite.duckduckgo.com https://lite.duckduckgo.com for a long time because of its near instant redirects, but it recently broke Firefox's omnisearch, and so I've all but stopped using it for even that. The bangs are painfully slow over the main duckduckgo site. Miss the bangs.
- pgcj_poster 6y agoBeing made by the French, Qwant.com seems to give better non-English results than DuckDuckGo and gives similar priority to privacy.
- PoignardAzur 6y agoQwant has a reputation on r/france for being completely awful. Not sure how justified that reputation is. Also, for non-trivial results, Qwant is mostly a fancy Bing front-end, so you might as well use Bing.
- BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 6y agoUsed DDG for two years. Now switched to Qwant. Much better and not US based.
- ur-whale 6y agoNot a fan of Google, but Qwant is simply unusable.