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I use DDG 100% of the time and maybe 5%-10% after I have to add !g to get better results. But maybe 1%-2% of the time I find DDG's results seem utterly unrelat

I use DDG 100% of the time and maybe 5%-10% after I have to add !g to get better results. But maybe 1%-2% of the time I find DDG's results seem utterly unrelated to what I was looking for, like it randomly rolled a dice. I do mean completely unrelated. It's not a big deal but it certainly is a puzzle.

mrweasel 4y ago
That seems to match my experience. Not the !g usage, that's much lower for me. We're at a point where if DDG can't find something, then neither can Google. Google will just drop keywords if it can find something, and frequently it will be the most important keyword that gets dropped. The unrelated result seems about right to me, 1-2%. It depends on the subject, it will typically be search terms that have been SEO'ed to death. The same search on Google will often yield similar poor results, or an entire page of ads. If Kagi is as great as people claim then that's great, we do need more competition among search engines. It might hurt DDG a little, but I would hope it move more people from Google to alternatives. The key point for me is really how bad Google have become. The search results aren't amazing, Bing and DDG can easily compete. They have vastly overdone the ads. Some results are now almost an entire page worth of ads and no actual results. The important part is to have good alternatives to Google.