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google is better than ddg, doesn’t seem close. i try to use ddg a few times a year, get frustrated, and switch back.
by rStar 5y ago
google is better than ddg, doesn’t seem close. i try to use ddg a few times a year, get frustrated, and switch back.
- mkbkn 5y agoMaybe that is true for developers. I am a non-developer and I search a lot. Ecosia and Startpage works for me.
- rStar 5y agostartpage gives me a captcha on every search. maybe its because i’m on a vpn. that is a very good solution though, and one of the things that started me thinking in this direction
- DerekBickerton 5y agoDDG is good for general queries. One thing I often do is to see what TLD a site is using before blindly typing it into my address bar. "Is it slashdot.org or slashdot.com?". For more complicated and long-tail queries, Google is your man, and DDG redirects those searches with a simple `!g` bang query.
- KhyberNomad 5y agoBrave Search is better. You can enable google fallback mixing so that if it can't find good answers it will just show you google answers anonymously. Also, they have their own indexing if you don't want to use bing's like ddg does.
- rStar 5y agoalthough with this !g ddg command that’s new to me, maybe ddg with !g is the answer. that being said, if anyone actually used that, i can see google shutting that right down.
- KhyberNomad 5y agoI use that a lot. Google can't really stop it since its just inserting url parameters.