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DDG is absolutely emerging, usage year over year is rising rapidly. I’ve personally switched over to ddg after years of jumping back and forth. It’s finally goo

DDG is absolutely emerging, usage year over year is rising rapidly. I’ve personally switched over to ddg after years of jumping back and forth. It’s finally good enough. For the Indernet as whole to switch over will take time. One thing that keeps customers coming back to google is the integration across their applications, i.e. email, collaboration (google docs) video (youtube) etc. That being said, I don’t really feel theres much of a benefit being logged in when searching, so I think search engine traffic could switch over to e.g. ddg while people still are heavily invested in other google services.

go_prodev 5y ago
Their Android browser is great. It kills ads and floating videos, and has excellent features. However I just can't rely on the search results. It's rare for me to get a decent result for a search so I switch between chrome. I'm not sure why because I thought DDG used Google search.
- ditsuke 5y ago
  DDG uses Bing (like most other alternative search engines). I believe Brave's new search engine uses its own index though.
  - merlinscholz 5y ago
    Exactly, they use their own index, which AFAIK can be seeded by other search engine results. Here's an overview: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project- https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh...
jeffbee 5y ago
despite the HN party line on this subject I think DDG is practically useless for long-tail searches. I was reserving the history of a city owned property in Oakland, California on DDG, using the address and the assessors parcel number. DDG results were all unrelated real estate advertisements in other cities. Google returned many pages of official city records. It’s almost as if Bing is not capable of indexing PDFs? Whatever the cause, this put me off Bing for the time being.

go_prodev 5y ago

Their Android browser is great. It kills ads and floating videos, and has excellent features. However I just can't rely on the search results. It's rare for me to get a decent result for a search so I switch between chrome. I'm not sure why because I thought DDG used Google search.

ditsuke 5y ago
DDG uses Bing (like most other alternative search engines). I believe Brave's new search engine uses its own index though.
- merlinscholz 5y ago
  Exactly, they use their own index, which AFAIK can be seeded by other search engine results. Here's an overview: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project- https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh...

jeffbee 5y ago

despite the HN party line on this subject I think DDG is practically useless for long-tail searches. I was reserving the history of a city owned property in Oakland, California on DDG, using the address and the assessors parcel number. DDG results were all unrelated real estate advertisements in other cities. Google returned many pages of official city records. It’s almost as if Bing is not capable of indexing PDFs? Whatever the cause, this put me off Bing for the time being.