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I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a ful

by Dig1t 6y ago

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

bargl 6y ago
I've been using DDG for a while now as my primary search. I've found it does a much more literal searches, but doesn't always interpret the intent of my sentence as well as Google does. I find myself using the !g at times when I can tell that the search didn't work as well as what I've seen on Google, but it's become much less frequent.
dmje 6y ago
lol, I came here to post something snarky along the lines of "...of which 95% are !g" but you beat me to it and did it in a nicer way too :-) And yes, me too - I do love DDG, very happy user.
yoran 6y ago
Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.
- sergiosgc 6y ago
  As a counterpoint, I also use DDG with a !g fallback. I'd place the success of fall-backing to Google at 20% at most. (i.e. most of the time, if DDG fails, Google will fail too).
- OscarCunningham 6y ago
  One factor you might not be thinking about is that if you use DDG first then you're getting a biased sample. You only try Google when DDG fails. So you see some times when Google succeeded where DDG failed, but you don't notice the times when DDG succeeded but Google would have failed.
- el-salvador 6y ago
  I sort of prefer Google Results too. Specially when searching in Spanish. What I dont like is the amount of captchas Google makes me solve (perhaps because I dont use Chrome or keep my Google account open)
0xCMP 6y ago
I pretty much always go with whatever DDG has for most things. If needed I'll redo the query with "!g" to confirm an d in my experience there are a lot of times the DDG query was better in my opinion. Things like about locations or very recent news are usually easier to find on Google though. I also use "!a" and "!yt" all the time as well.
irrational 6y ago
I’ve been using DDG as my sole search engine for years. I didn’t even know !g was a thing.
aarchi 6y ago
Since switching to DDG, I haven't used Google Search once nor !g. I've had a better experience with DDG: no sponsored results, less skewed rankings, less censoring (Google removes many results from DMCA requests), and of course no tracking. Google's lazy-loaded useless suggestion boxes, added a few years ago, that push the content down, often when clicking on a link, were my final annoyance before switching. For the first bit after switching, I missed seeing the daily Google doodles, but I'm now more cynical towards Google and no longer care.

by Dig1t 6y ago

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

bargl 6y ago

I've been using DDG for a while now as my primary search. I've found it does a much more literal searches, but doesn't always interpret the intent of my sentence as well as Google does. I find myself using the !g at times when I can tell that the search didn't work as well as what I've seen on Google, but it's become much less frequent.

dmje 6y ago

lol, I came here to post something snarky along the lines of "...of which 95% are !g" but you beat me to it and did it in a nicer way too :-) And yes, me too - I do love DDG, very happy user.

yoran 6y ago

Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.

sergiosgc 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I also use DDG with a !g fallback. I'd place the success of fall-backing to Google at 20% at most. (i.e. most of the time, if DDG fails, Google will fail too).
OscarCunningham 6y ago
One factor you might not be thinking about is that if you use DDG first then you're getting a biased sample. You only try Google when DDG fails. So you see some times when Google succeeded where DDG failed, but you don't notice the times when DDG succeeded but Google would have failed.
el-salvador 6y ago
I sort of prefer Google Results too. Specially when searching in Spanish. What I dont like is the amount of captchas Google makes me solve (perhaps because I dont use Chrome or keep my Google account open)

0xCMP 6y ago

I pretty much always go with whatever DDG has for most things. If needed I'll redo the query with "!g" to confirm an d in my experience there are a lot of times the DDG query was better in my opinion. Things like about locations or very recent news are usually easier to find on Google though. I also use "!a" and "!yt" all the time as well.

irrational 6y ago

I’ve been using DDG as my sole search engine for years. I didn’t even know !g was a thing.

aarchi 6y ago

Since switching to DDG, I haven't used Google Search once nor !g. I've had a better experience with DDG: no sponsored results, less skewed rankings, less censoring (Google removes many results from DMCA requests), and of course no tracking. Google's lazy-loaded useless suggestion boxes, added a few years ago, that push the content down, often when clicking on a link, were my final annoyance before switching. For the first bit after switching, I missed seeing the daily Google doodles, but I'm now more cynical towards Google and no longer care.