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None? I know a lot of products which I could recommend: Go, Android, Maps, Youtube w Adblock, Search (for the average joe, I prefer using kagi). Of course prod
by mccorrinall 4y ago
None? I know a lot of products which I could recommend: Go, Android, Maps, Youtube w Adblock, Search (for the average joe, I prefer using kagi).
Of course products such as yt and search are far from being perfect, but they are still in a commendable state.
- dvt 4y ago> yt and search are far from being perfect My thesis is that YouTube and Google Search are in an almost perfectly optimized position, where ±5% product quality would not make anyone switch to another service (this is why DDG isn't taking over, for example), but ±10% (or higher, in the + case) is probably around an order of magnitude more difficult to achieve. In other words, no one other than Google can make a better Google.
- snek_case 4y agoDuckDuckGo is pretty far from Google in terms of search result quality, unfortunately. I would use it if the results were better.
- pmontra 4y agoI'm using DDG a default on my laptop but I end up adding !g in a lot of searches. Google usually finds what DDG doesn't or places it closer to the start of the page.
- corrral 4y agoI mainly keep it as my default because of the "bangs". Which I could configure my browser to do (and did... oh, when did Firefox add that feature? 15 years ago? More?) but setting DDG as my default saves me having to do that. Plus, sometimes, I can get useful ordinary search results without having to look at Google's trashy results page.
- april_22 4y agoI have been using You.com the past couple of weeks and am really enjoying the search results I am getting there.
- mccorrinall 4y agoThey are optimized for ad revenue, not for having a pleasing user experience. :)