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I dropped DDG maybe a year ago. The problem is, I constantly am searching about esoteric things. Obscure, less known media. Content creators with small followin
by Night_Thastus 4y ago
I dropped DDG maybe a year ago. The problem is, I constantly am searching about esoteric things. Obscure, less known media. Content creators with small followings. Niche topics that aren't very popular. Or even just very small, specific sub-groups of a very popular thing.
For that, DDG just doesn't do well. I found myself having to do the !g command so frequently to get what I wanted that it wasn't worth it anymore.
- earthling8118 4y agoThis is the main argument I see against DDG, but I've never seen it be true. The only purpose of !g for me has been when I want Google maps specifically. For anything else it's just as good as the other search options. I think it would be more accurate to say that none of them seem to be great these days but not that this is a DDG issue.
- Night_Thastus 4y agoIn my experience, Google is substantially better for my searches than DDG. Google isn't perfect, but it's pretty close to what I need. I wish that wasn't true though, I would vastly prefer DDG.
- JohnFen 4y agoI search for a lot of really obscure stuff, but I haven't used !g for anything for a couple of years now.
- eviks 4y agoUnfortunately, for non-obscure stuff I add g too often for my liking (but not too often to drop DDG yet), have made conscious decision to try to not do that, but always went back.
- eviks 4y agotip: you can add a custom search engine and use g instead of !g, more convenient