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Personally I stick with DDG because in the search result page there is more text about the sites. With more context it's easier for me to decide if a site will

Personally I stick with DDG because in the search result page there is more text about the sites. With more context it's easier for me to decide if a site will be useful or not. (And also because that horrible 'other people search' popup in Google that I always end clicking because it appears after the exact milliseconds it takes me to move the cursor to the next entry). And in those cases where Google performs better, I have a bookmarklet in the always visible bookmarks bar to switch between both, from ddg to Google and from Google to ddg (I'm a mouse user, just one click away). javascript:void(window.location.href = "https://" + (window.location.host == 'duckduckgo.com' ? "www.google.com/search" : "duckduckgo.com/") + "?" + window.location.href.match('q=[^&]\*')[0])

fnord77 5y ago
in DDG you can add "!g" to the beginning of your search term to switch to google results, too
- TrianguloY 5y ago
  Also at the end! Which is useful for mobile (discovered it from another comment here in HN, thanks!). On desktop I prefer the bookmarklet, it is just one click away (as I said I'm a mouse user)
- pmoriarty 5y ago
  I use !s for Startpage results, which are Google results, but it doesn't go directly to Google and is supposedly more private.
black_puppydog 5y ago
> that horrible 'other people search' popup in Google that I always end clicking because it appears after the exact milliseconds it takes me to move the cursor to the next entry god I hate that thing so much! In my mind, with no evidence to back this up, I like to imagine they A/B tested various versions of their code and the system automatically decided that version xyz made people use the feature more, so that's the one it went with. But the only reason that was the case was version xyz took a little longer to answer queries or load the client side JS, and the result is exactly what you described. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that. It's not that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but I just really like to imagine that they're not even aware of how frustrating this is.
uvnq 5y ago
That's pretty cool. You can also type "!g" in the searchbar to search your query in google. There's also "!gi" for google images and "!gm" for google maps. They call these "bangs" and have many more of them. They're super useful and one of the main reasons I use DDG

fnord77 5y ago

in DDG you can add "!g" to the beginning of your search term to switch to google results, too

TrianguloY 5y ago
Also at the end! Which is useful for mobile (discovered it from another comment here in HN, thanks!). On desktop I prefer the bookmarklet, it is just one click away (as I said I'm a mouse user)
pmoriarty 5y ago
I use !s for Startpage results, which are Google results, but it doesn't go directly to Google and is supposedly more private.

black_puppydog 5y ago

> that horrible 'other people search' popup in Google that I always end clicking because it appears after the exact milliseconds it takes me to move the cursor to the next entry god I hate that thing so much! In my mind, with no evidence to back this up, I like to imagine they A/B tested various versions of their code and the system automatically decided that version xyz made people use the feature more, so that's the one it went with. But the only reason that was the case was version xyz took a little longer to answer queries or load the client side JS, and the result is exactly what you described. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that. It's not that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but I just really like to imagine that they're not even aware of how frustrating this is.

uvnq 5y ago

That's pretty cool. You can also type "!g" in the searchbar to search your query in google. There's also "!gi" for google images and "!gm" for google maps. They call these "bangs" and have many more of them. They're super useful and one of the main reasons I use DDG