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One thing I notice DDG lags behind google in is certain cases where I want the most timely information regarding something. A few examples: I’m not a huge spor
by S_A_P 5y ago
One thing I notice DDG lags behind google in is certain cases where I want the most timely information regarding something. A few examples:
I’m not a huge sports fan but knowing a bit about the latest games helps for small talk among acquaintances. On Google I can type “Texas A&M football” and I get the most recent score right on top. DDG doesn’t do this and I usually have to dig through a few links to find it.
Another example- there have been 4 house fires in my area in the last few weeks. It’s enough and close proximity enough that I wondered if arson is involved. I DDG house fires in my area and got mostly results from 2012. Google was not perfect here but much more current results were returned.
Now I could probably adjust my search query/criteria and get better results but it seems that in general Google knows when to return current results vs general information about some regardless of publish date.
- ziml77 5y agoThat's a category of queries that leads me to use Google. If I'm looking up current events or something that changes a lot over time, Google seems to be much better at giving me what I want without me needing to tweak my query or add time range restrictions on the search. Also for some reason error messages come up with better results on Google. DDG will make it look like no one has ever written anything about the error I'm running into, Google usually has something in its index to show me.