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I am not surprised. DuckDuckGo is a pretty good search engine. I am getting more and more dependant on their bang "!" syntax.

• pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  >I am getting more and more dependant on their bang "!" syntax. // Doesn't that mean DDG is a pretty good proxy.
  • mxavier 15y ago
    Exactly. I only really lob softball queries at DDG. I use ! to go to the first result on queries I know are going to have the right match first. Everything else I proxy to google through !g. DDG is great but the search quality (or perhaps the size of the data they index) is just not nearly up to par with Google.
    • avar 15y ago
      This is a shameless plug, but using !g constantly on DDG led me to write GooseGooseGo, a trivial wrapper for DDG you can clone & run on localhost: http://goosegoosego.com http://goosegoosego.com