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I've been using https://www.runnaroo.com/ https://www.runnaroo.com/ and it's very good, better than DuckDuckGo in almost everything. Sometimes I still fall bac

I've been using https://www.runnaroo.com/ https://www.runnaroo.com/ and it's very good, better than DuckDuckGo in almost everything. Sometimes I still fall back to Google but if that was becoming the norm on DDG, not anymore. Another thing that helps is configuring custom search engines on Firefox. For example, for me typing `gh something` in the address bar does a GitHub search directly and so on.

chalst 6y ago
Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources.
- chris_f 6y ago
  >Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources. Not necessarily better data sources, but different data sources and a slightly different approach. For organic results, the biggest different is that Runnaroo uses Google as the base for web results (similar to Startpage) where DDG uses Bing. Outside of the organic results, Runnaroo's strategy is to integrate results from different vertical specific search engines who specialize in a niche topic. I call these 'Deep Searches' because they are essentially pulled from the database of the vertical source. It's the difference between getting an link to a website's home page vs. landing on the page and using their own search function to see the results. For many queries, I believe this can provide higher quality SERP. For example, see the below results for "parkinson research" [0] or "react.js" [1]. The results are a lot more informationally dense than other search engines. Again, not necessarily better, but different. DDG is still better for many queries(currency conversions, weather, etc), and definitely more polished, but I only launched Runnaroo a few months ago and new features and Deep Search sources are being added almost daily. So TL;DR, Google results (with privacy) plus additional search results from relevant niche and authoritative sources. [0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=parkinson+research https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=parkinson+research [1] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js
  - fiatjaf 6y ago
    Is it ok to get Google results like that?
    - chris_f 6y ago
      >Is it ok to get Google results like that? It is. We integrate the Google results through their web search API, and comply with their usage terms of service (as we do with all the data partners we integrate).
chris_f 6y ago
I'm the creator of Runnaroo. Thank you so much for the kind words! It made my day. I was having the same experience where I kept having to fall back to Google, so this was a very much a "scratch your own itch" project.

chalst 6y ago

Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources.

chris_f 6y ago
>Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources. Not necessarily better data sources, but different data sources and a slightly different approach. For organic results, the biggest different is that Runnaroo uses Google as the base for web results (similar to Startpage) where DDG uses Bing. Outside of the organic results, Runnaroo's strategy is to integrate results from different vertical specific search engines who specialize in a niche topic. I call these 'Deep Searches' because they are essentially pulled from the database of the vertical source. It's the difference between getting an link to a website's home page vs. landing on the page and using their own search function to see the results. For many queries, I believe this can provide higher quality SERP. For example, see the below results for "parkinson research" [0] or "react.js" [1]. The results are a lot more informationally dense than other search engines. Again, not necessarily better, but different. DDG is still better for many queries(currency conversions, weather, etc), and definitely more polished, but I only launched Runnaroo a few months ago and new features and Deep Search sources are being added almost daily. So TL;DR, Google results (with privacy) plus additional search results from relevant niche and authoritative sources. [0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=parkinson+research https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=parkinson+research [1] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js
- fiatjaf 6y ago
  Is it ok to get Google results like that?
  - chris_f 6y ago
    >Is it ok to get Google results like that? It is. We integrate the Google results through their web search API, and comply with their usage terms of service (as we do with all the data partners we integrate).

chris_f 6y ago

I'm the creator of Runnaroo. Thank you so much for the kind words! It made my day. I was having the same experience where I kept having to fall back to Google, so this was a very much a "scratch your own itch" project.