Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by rms_returns on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:29AM (#13285171)

We have the chicken and egg problem there. Google have that results because it has terabytes of information on everything and that's because millions use it. If more and more people start using DDG, their results will also improve.

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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by thesmallestcat on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:50AM (#13285326)

> If more and more people start using DDG, their results will also improve.

Let's say everybody stops using Google right now and starts using DDG with its anonymous, proxied queries to Bing. How does this in any way improve search results? You could maybe argue that heavy direct use of bing.com would give Microsoft some useful training data. But none of that changes the fact that Bing's crawlers aren't that good, and neither is its search engine.

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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by st3v3r on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:38PM (#13285711)

See, I'm not willing to do that. I'm not willing to put up with inferior results on the promise that maybe, someday in the future, they might get better.

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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by macintux on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:35PM (#13286716)

I remember how impossible searching was before Google. DDG at its worst is infinitely better than that.

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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by st3v3r on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:04PM (#13287871)

It very well might be. But there's also something better. And I'd prefer to use the better option.

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