DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions

Re:DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions by Ao7bei3s on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:02PM (#11602738)

Why use DuckDuckGo then and suffer an extra roundtrip?

Chrome supports using different search engines directly.

In my Chrome, searching youtube.com is just "you<tab>query<return>", the en.wikipedia.org is "en<tab>query<return>", Google Maps is "maps..." etc.

The nice thing is that it picks up various search engines automatically. Useful for work etc.

And if you want to use DuckDuckGo occasionally, it's just a "duck<tab>" away.

(And Google is my default search engine.)

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Re:DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions by RodericDay on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:51PM (#11603268)

I really dislike Google as a company and I like that DDG allegedly encrypts my searches and gets the data instead.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions by x1798DE on Saturday April 30, 2016 @10:43PM (#11604622)

I don't think any amount of "encryption" will allow DDG to make a query to Google without Google knowing the contents of the query.

Also, doesn't !g just open a Google search with the specified query?

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Re:DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions by thomasfoster96 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:54AM (#11627683)

Chrome's multi-search-engine thing gets in the way for me - it ruins autocomplete.

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