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I use DDG almost exclusively. I just checked my history, what I use !g for are: 1. Long tail results. When DDG has few results, they completely ignore some of
by Semaphor 6y ago
I use DDG almost exclusively. I just checked my history, what I use !g for are:
1. Long tail results. When DDG has few results, they completely ignore some of my terms to show me more, but useless results, even when I "force" terms. This is by far my number 1 complaint about them and I can’t fathom why they would do this.
2. Long tail results 2. While in 1) DDG has the proper results but just doesn’t show them, sometimes the result is not available to them. This is pretty rare though.
3. Google products. DDG sucks at giving me documentation (both API and help pages) for them.
I really have no problem with some abundance of affiliate spam, if anything, google is worse at that.
- wyclif 6y agoPeople need to remember that Google gives really good results on almost anything product or service-related because they're an advertising company. So when I search for stuff like that, I usually use the "!g" hashbang.