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I use DDG for years, and it's at most once a month when I can't find something and need to fall back to Google. Maybe I got used to the suckiness? Or maybe it's
by id02009 5y ago
I use DDG for years, and it's at most once a month when I can't find something and need to fall back to Google. Maybe I got used to the suckiness? Or maybe it's relative?
- Forbo 5y agoAny time DDG fails me, I just append "!s" to proxy the search through StartPage instead. I've found it scratches the itch pretty well for 99% of my use cases.
- okay475008 5y agothis isn't real. Google has the worst results in comparison to both yandex, baidu, and even ddg/startpage/bing/any other google clone like duckduckgo.
- dmoy 5y agoWhich is just google, right?
- Forbo 5y agoIn the same sense that "DuckDuckGo is just Bing".
- wyre 5y agoI thought Startpage is literally a privacy layer over Google Search and DDG has their own webcrawler and algorithms built on top of Bing.
- alisonkisk 5y agoWhat is Bing, if not a webcrawler and algorithms?
- spicybright 5y agoI found myself typing !s so much I switched my default to start page. DDG results are really bad imo
- unicornporn 5y agoDDG = Bing Startpage = Google Bing/DDG results suck (when localized to Sweden), so I use Startpage. I know it's owned by an ad tech company now, but I haven't seen any proof that will affect me. Its reach can't be compared to Google's, which has its trackers on just about every web page (Google Analytics and Fonts).
- squarefoot 5y agoLooks like Startpage is now what Scroogle was roughly up to a decade ago. https://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/22/scroogle-founder-pulls-the-plug-closes-website/ https://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/22/scroogle-founder-pulls-the...
- bamboozled 5y agoI use Google for work DDG for play. Google is just so much better at finding technical related content.