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you can '!g search' in ddg to search google instead
by woleium 6y ago
you can '!g search' in ddg to search google instead
- lylo 6y agoI found myself increasingly doing this to the point where I just gave up and submitted myself to Google once more. It’s still king.
- jorvi 6y agoI wonder if they log those searches. To be clear: in a privacy-friendly way. It would be a treasure trove to them as they basically get statistics on which searches do bad on their engine. Focus on the most '!g'd search term, and then just work down the list.
- Godel_unicode 6y ago"""We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings.""" - https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s4 https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s4
- newscracker 6y agoThat adds more time since the query is sent to DDG and then bounces the browser to Google. For searches where one prefers Google, using it directly (which is easier in Firefox for me) is a better option.
- kuzimoto 6y agoThe latency is fairly negligible, to me at least. Plus if you're already searching in DDG it's faster to input !g than to go to Google. Also I think it's nice to give them that info where they could be done better.
- missedthecue 6y agoDo you really notice the extra milliseconds?
- edgyquant 6y agoWhat’s even the point of using !g to go to google it just redirects me last I checked so it’s still giving you your personalized searches (thus not a solution for privacy.) Am I missing something here?
- noisem4ker 6y agoI think it lets DDG know you weren't satisfied with the results for a particular query.
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