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Re:Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful by digi_owl on Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:35PM (#10244935)
Been using duckduckgo for a year or two now. If the results are not satisfactory i can always drop a !g into he query to have them send me to the Google results.

That said, DDG is damn good at giving me relevant stuff on clear queries. But i find that Google and DDG alike gets into a bind if i get a bit technical.

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Re:Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful by giancarlostoro on Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:38PM (#10244942)
That's mostly my barrier for switching out of Google. Thanks for the tip, I always seem to forget that DDG can quickly push you back to Google when convenient.
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Re:Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful by digi_owl on Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:53PM (#10244995)
The real fun part is when you set it as default engine for a browser. Then you can do things like !w to search just wikipedia's articles etc right in the url bar.

There is also startpage.com (!s(tartpage) in DDG) to give anonymized Google results. And also ixquick (!ix(quick), natch) for a meta-search (not sure exactly what engines they cover).

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

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