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My default is now DDG. It works great when I really want to look up Wikipedia or some similar website which is featured by DDG. But as soon as I start to do s
by fafner 13y ago
My default is now DDG. It works great when I really want to look up Wikipedia or some similar website which is featured by DDG. But as soon as I start to do some real web searching I usually quickly put !g (shortcut for go to Google) in front and use Google again.
Maybe switching back to Google would be the easiest step. But there is more involved in this decision than comfort. It is futile to rely on one service. The customer never benefits in a monopoly or oligopoly scheme. Google is the enemy of anonymity on the web and collects quite a lot of data from anybody. Google is doing a lot of evil these days, such as pushing DRM into HTML5.
So yeah I often go back to Google Search. But I hope this will decrease over time. Meanwhile I help and support one of the few serious contenders to Google.
And it's not that Google Search is perfect. It constantly tries to second guess you and nowadays I end up constantly adding more and more quotes to my search terms to somehow prevent that.
- walden42 13y agoThe only search engines I use are DDG and Startpage. Startpage uses Google results, so I'm never missing out anything, but I still keep my privacy. DDG is for definitions, wiki lookups, unit conversions, some random stuff, and SP is for the specific searches, like for programming help.