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I say about 50% I'm good with DDG. About 1/3 of the time I add !g, usually for weird error messages and tech stuff. Honestly we shouldn't be using Google for e

I say about 50% I'm good with DDG. About 1/3 of the time I add !g, usually for weird error messages and tech stuff. Honestly we shouldn't be using Google for everything. Why not just search StackExchange or Github issues directly for known bug problems? If you need a movie, !imdb or !rt forward you to exactly where you want to really search on. If DDG or Google also included independent small blogs for movie results, I could see the value in that. I'd prefer someone's review on their own site or video channel, but it doesn't. We've kinda lost that part of the Internet.

ziml77 6y ago
Just the weekend I had the "weird error message" situation. DDG gave me 1 page with no relevant results while Google had no problem finding proper matches. Would be nice if they could do better on queries like that... though funny thing is if they didn't respect privacy they probably could. Log any searches where a user looked for something and then tried the same thing prefixed with !g. Use those for figuring out where to focus efforts and what to test with.