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I spent a few hours using Duck Duck Go before commenting. It's been my Chrome default search for 4 hours. • The results are less relevant. Bubble or no, it was
by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
I spent a few hours using Duck Duck Go before commenting. It's been my Chrome default search for 4 hours.
• The results are less relevant. Bubble or no, it was harder to find things I look for all the time. For example I had to constantly add the word Seattle to my search terms.
• It felt like an old search engine. The results, the display, the choice of Mapquest maps all made me feel like I was using Yahoo or even early Google.
• At first the feeling of not being watched was liberating but I forgot about it very quickly.
I'm going to continue using it as my default search for the lack of tracking but Iv'e already had to go to Google a few times to find what I was looking for. Convenience over privacy right?
- rnicholson 15y agoInteresting. I've been using ddg for several months now, and haven't quite experienced my search results as being "less relevant" or "harder to find things" in comparison to Google or Yahoo!. Ironically, I do use the ddg bang (!) operators quite often. ...like !gm or !gi if I know I want a map or image (for example)
- iamelgringo 15y agoBlekko has been my default search engine for the last months, and I really really like it.
- epi0Bauqu 15y agoThx -- in my experience it really takes a week to get into it. If you can stick it out I'd love to get your additional feedback after that point. Point of fact: it isn't MapQuest, it is OpenStreetMap served via OpenMapquest, which uses their resources to forward that project. You can read more about it at http://openstreetmap.com/ http://openstreetmap.com/ (left column) and http://open.mapquestapi.com/ http://open.mapquestapi.com/ - in any case, maps are relatively new and in process.
- ryanisinallofus 15y agoThanks for clarifying. Open street map is a cool project.