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I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privac

I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy? I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?

thecombjelly 15y ago
The best reason for me is the quality. Between the disambiguation feature and the lack of spam and crappy sites, DDG is really good at finding what you want it to.
- omaranto 15y ago
  In some domains. Whenever I give it a go, as soon as I turn to work it fails me (work is math for me).
  - epi0Bauqu 15y ago
    Would love to incorporate a lot more math stuff, as I suspect there are some great sources out there. If you are so inclined, please let us know about them or add them to this Wiki: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki
dangrossman 15y ago
Do some programming related searches on DDG and you'll see the difference. Google gives me a list of links, DDG gave me a function definition and description from a language manual... on the result page.
aperiodic 15y ago
These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) * IP Address: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip * Common symbol tables: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities * Wolfram Alpha integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx Disambiguation (great for software with a common word/term as a name), e.g. homebrew: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew Favicons in the results. This lets me easily focus in on the sites that I think will be most useful. Direct search of many programming references with bang-syntax: * Ruby: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO * JQuery: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn * Clojure: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref There are many more goodies I keep discovering (one nice surprise the other day was that searching for "Community" (a TV show) gave me the air date of the next episode). The best feature of DDG is the extensive integration with domain-specific information sources or search tools that often give me the information I'm looking for with no clicks at all.
- mayanksinghal 15y ago
  [Requests formatting]
  - aperiodic 15y ago
    Yikes, sorry about that. These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) * IP Address: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip * Common symbol tables: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities * Wolfram Alpha integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx Disambiguation (great for software with a common word/term as a name), e.g. homebrew: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew Favicons in the results. This lets me easily focus in on the sites that I think will be most useful. Direct search of many programming references with bang-syntax: * Ruby: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO * JQuery: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn * Clojure: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref There are many more goodies I keep discovering (one nice surprise the other day was that searching for "Community" (a TV show) gave me the air date of the next episode). The best feature of DDG is the extensive integration with domain-specific information sources or search tools that often give me the information I'm looking for with no clicks at all.
    - mayanksinghal 15y ago
      Thanks :) (And yeah, I understand that I could have done that myself and hence the downvote)

thecombjelly 15y ago

The best reason for me is the quality. Between the disambiguation feature and the lack of spam and crappy sites, DDG is really good at finding what you want it to.

omaranto 15y ago
In some domains. Whenever I give it a go, as soon as I turn to work it fails me (work is math for me).
- epi0Bauqu 15y ago
  Would love to incorporate a lot more math stuff, as I suspect there are some great sources out there. If you are so inclined, please let us know about them or add them to this Wiki: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki

dangrossman 15y ago

Do some programming related searches on DDG and you'll see the difference. Google gives me a list of links, DDG gave me a function definition and description from a language manual... on the result page.

aperiodic 15y ago

These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) * IP Address: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip * Common symbol tables: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities * Wolfram Alpha integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx Disambiguation (great for software with a common word/term as a name), e.g. homebrew: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew Favicons in the results. This lets me easily focus in on the sites that I think will be most useful. Direct search of many programming references with bang-syntax: * Ruby: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO * JQuery: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn * Clojure: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref There are many more goodies I keep discovering (one nice surprise the other day was that searching for "Community" (a TV show) gave me the air date of the next episode). The best feature of DDG is the extensive integration with domain-specific information sources or search tools that often give me the information I'm looking for with no clicks at all.

mayanksinghal 15y ago
[Requests formatting]
- aperiodic 15y ago
  Yikes, sorry about that. These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) * IP Address: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip * Common symbol tables: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities * Wolfram Alpha integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^2%29%2F%28e^x%29%29+dx Disambiguation (great for software with a common word/term as a name), e.g. homebrew: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homebrew Favicons in the results. This lets me easily focus in on the sites that I think will be most useful. Direct search of many programming references with bang-syntax: * Ruby: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ruby+IO * JQuery: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!jquery+fadeIn * Clojure: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!clojure+deref There are many more goodies I keep discovering (one nice surprise the other day was that searching for "Community" (a TV show) gave me the air date of the next episode). The best feature of DDG is the extensive integration with domain-specific information sources or search tools that often give me the information I'm looking for with no clicks at all.
  - mayanksinghal 15y ago
    Thanks :) (And yeah, I understand that I could have done that myself and hence the downvote)