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I've been trying duckduckgo for a month now and I'm definitely not getting as good results for my "esoteric programming errors" as I hoped I would. I'm also sh

by bstar77 15y ago

I've been trying duckduckgo for a month now and I'm definitely not getting as good results for my "esoteric programming errors" as I hoped I would. I'm also shocked at how much I used google image search, losing that has been a shock. Now I switched away from Google due to privacy issues so Bing does nothing to improve that. I have a little more faith in Duckduckgo, but it is definitely lagging on features and relevance for me so I don't know how long it's going to be my default search.

joedevon 15y ago
What's great w/ DDG is if you want a google image search, you append !gi bing images !bi and !g for redirecting to Google !b for bing. !m for google maps. So basically you give a small guy a chance and it's decent enough. When it isn't the shortcut is great for the big boys. And for programming, Duck Duck Go is the best because you append !so and it takes you to stackoverflow. Google values SO scrapers higher than SO. That said, if you don't learn the shortcuts, you are missing out. Also, after listening to a talk by Stoyan Stefanov (it's on IT Conversations) I realized that what makes Google so useful subconsciously is their subsecond response time. This is my biggest problem w/ ddg. That said, I went to a meetup tonight by an Xoogler. He was mentioning that they have an internal query tool that will query a trillion records in a second. I wonder if Bing has the same...
- jrockway 15y ago
  Google values SO scrapers higher than SO. Wasn't this fixed years ago? I haven't seen SO scrapers in ages, and I get a lot of SO results from both my personal and work Google accounts. (I definitely blocked them from my personal account ages ago, but I've never blocked anything from my work account.)
marshray 15y ago
I actually don't mind the extra 500 ms or the 1 in 10 times I have to fall back to another engine. Every time it just reminds me and I'm thinking like "guess who's not logging my keystrokes and clicks this time mwahahaa." :-)
worldimperator 15y ago
Exactly my experience. I wonder why DDG doesnt integrate with Bings image search (and more natively) ?

by bstar77 15y ago

joedevon 15y ago

What's great w/ DDG is if you want a google image search, you append !gi bing images !bi and !g for redirecting to Google !b for bing. !m for google maps. So basically you give a small guy a chance and it's decent enough. When it isn't the shortcut is great for the big boys. And for programming, Duck Duck Go is the best because you append !so and it takes you to stackoverflow. Google values SO scrapers higher than SO. That said, if you don't learn the shortcuts, you are missing out. Also, after listening to a talk by Stoyan Stefanov (it's on IT Conversations) I realized that what makes Google so useful subconsciously is their subsecond response time. This is my biggest problem w/ ddg. That said, I went to a meetup tonight by an Xoogler. He was mentioning that they have an internal query tool that will query a trillion records in a second. I wonder if Bing has the same...

jrockway 15y ago
Google values SO scrapers higher than SO. Wasn't this fixed years ago? I haven't seen SO scrapers in ages, and I get a lot of SO results from both my personal and work Google accounts. (I definitely blocked them from my personal account ages ago, but I've never blocked anything from my work account.)

marshray 15y ago

I actually don't mind the extra 500 ms or the 1 in 10 times I have to fall back to another engine. Every time it just reminds me and I'm thinking like "guess who's not logging my keystrokes and clicks this time mwahahaa." :-)

worldimperator 15y ago

Exactly my experience. I wonder why DDG doesnt integrate with Bings image search (and more natively) ?