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DDG is my default on my devices, but at this point I've just defaulted to !g-ing every search query just because of how often DDG is not up to the mark. I like
by notRobot 5y ago
DDG is my default on my devices, but at this point I've just defaulted to !g-ing every search query just because of how often DDG is not up to the mark.
I like the convenience of those Google quick answer box excerpts. And DDG is TERRIBLE for anything remotely regional, and I don't expect it to be fixed anytime in the next decade because I currently live in what's technically a third-world country, so I doubt they'll allocate any resources towards fixing it.
Essentially at this point I only use DDG for the bangs. !g for web search, and others for everything else.
Yes, Google search results have been getting worse. But in my experience, they're still better than anything else out there.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
- vhanda 5y agoYup. My experience has been similar. My DDG's results when searching for programing related errors has also been consistently worse than Google.
- ThrashBeard 5y agoIt seemed like DDG improved greatly a few years ago, I started using it and now it just seems like it's slipping again. Of course this is purely anecdotal, maybe it's just in my head but I could've sworn it was better like half a year ago maybe. And it's not about regional searches but searches in english about general stuff like programming problems that seem to return something very loosely related or a lot of pages in chinese. I paste the same query in StartPage and I get all the answers so I'm testing StartPage as the default for now even though I don't like SP's UI as much as DDG's.
- jimbogr77 5y agoI have exactly the same experience. I switched to DDG on all my devices but when searching for regional(greek) stuff, the results are bad.