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Funny thing there is that the quality of Google Search results have absolutely dropped off a cliff for me in the last two years. I'm finding frequently that duc

Funny thing there is that the quality of Google Search results have absolutely dropped off a cliff for me in the last two years. I'm finding frequently that duckduckgo provides more relevant results with a better UI and faster loading times.

aminozuur 6y ago
That could be so, I'm willing to give DDG another try. But I use google for stock information, flight updates, to calculate "what date is it 18 days after July 13", and many other weird questions that Google answers instantaneously. Google's gotten so good with all that, that they've got me by the balls.
- abdullahkhalids 6y ago
  https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=what+date+is+it+18+days+after+July+13&ia=answer https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=what+date+is+it+18+days+aft... https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%24GOOG+stock&ia=stock https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%24GOOG+stock&ia=stock
- avaika 6y ago
  DDG does a great job with instant answers. You can learn more about the sources at their docs [1]. PS. There are more features than just IA. You can check here [2]. [1]: https://duck.co/ia https://duck.co/ia [2]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/instant-answers-and-other-features/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/i...
- croutonwagon 6y ago
  For me. I just pipe it to DDg. If, for any reason, I want google. I just append !g to the search. For example I prefer google when searching restaurants or brick and mortar places with a phone number. dDDG piggy backs on Yelp which isn’t great sometimes and out of date. So I just revert to piping it to google. Interestingly IT/devops/languange related searches have marketdly improved with DDg and I can get consistent results (ie using the same search string later). Google will often give me random garbage from places that are regularly unhelpful like Microsoft’s answers pages etc.
wdn 6y ago
I tried DDG and Bing and only go back to Google. If you search anything that has a political interest, it is better to use DDG but everything else Google does it better.
joshspankit 6y ago
Same here. The “SEO” space is way too aggressive, and while Google does a pretty good battling it in general, the searches that are not top-level mainstream consistently have a lot of noise.

aminozuur 6y ago

That could be so, I'm willing to give DDG another try. But I use google for stock information, flight updates, to calculate "what date is it 18 days after July 13", and many other weird questions that Google answers instantaneously. Google's gotten so good with all that, that they've got me by the balls.

abdullahkhalids 6y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=what+date+is+it+18+days+after+July+13&ia=answer https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=what+date+is+it+18+days+aft... https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%24GOOG+stock&ia=stock https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%24GOOG+stock&ia=stock
avaika 6y ago
DDG does a great job with instant answers. You can learn more about the sources at their docs [1]. PS. There are more features than just IA. You can check here [2]. [1]: https://duck.co/ia https://duck.co/ia [2]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/instant-answers-and-other-features/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/i...
croutonwagon 6y ago
For me. I just pipe it to DDg. If, for any reason, I want google. I just append !g to the search. For example I prefer google when searching restaurants or brick and mortar places with a phone number. dDDG piggy backs on Yelp which isn’t great sometimes and out of date. So I just revert to piping it to google. Interestingly IT/devops/languange related searches have marketdly improved with DDg and I can get consistent results (ie using the same search string later). Google will often give me random garbage from places that are regularly unhelpful like Microsoft’s answers pages etc.

wdn 6y ago

I tried DDG and Bing and only go back to Google. If you search anything that has a political interest, it is better to use DDG but everything else Google does it better.

joshspankit 6y ago

Same here. The “SEO” space is way too aggressive, and while Google does a pretty good battling it in general, the searches that are not top-level mainstream consistently have a lot of noise.