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For me, DDG results are even worse than Google. It's set as my default and I'd say at least half of my searches in DDG generate completely useless results...pag

For me, DDG results are even worse than Google. It's set as my default and I'd say at least half of my searches in DDG generate completely useless results...pages of obviously SEO'd garbage. DDG also doesn't support showing a site's basic structure in the search results (ie, the card of a company's website with Products, Contact Us, Support, etc) and the preview text is garbo as well...it reminds me of 1990's era electronic card catalog search excerpts. I look at the first page or two, give up, search google. While I have to hunt a bit in the results, I do eventually get what I wanted.

infinitezest 5y ago
Every time this comes up I'll see a few people talk about how the results aren't relevant but it has not been my experience. I've been using DDG as my main search engine for a few years and never have to go beyond the first page. I really curious why that is.
- JohnFen 5y ago
  My experience is like yours -- DDG is legitimately better than Google. My hypothesis is that it's related to how you construct searches. I expect Google probably does better if you learn how to talk to it, since it seems to want to interpret your query rather than take it literally. My searches tend to be keyword-oriented rather than natural language. I think DDG does better with those.