Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by peatmoss on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:33AM (#13285192)

I find myself often doing a two- or three-step search with DDG. First I search for a thing on DDG. Then if I get something back like Django the movie instead of Django the framework, I'll search the thing again on DDG with some sort of specializing term, e.g. "python." Lastly, I almost always end up searching with "!g thing + specializing term(s)."

I love the idea of DDG, and I'm delighted on the rare occasion that I get better results than google. But most of the time I get results that are inferior to El Goog. Still, I keep trying.

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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by StavrosK on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:57AM (#13285373)

Really? I've been using DDG exclusively for a few months, and whenever I get unsatisfactory results, I retry with !g. Invariably, I get equally unsatisfactory results with Google. Maybe in some rare cases where I'm searching for something esoteric, Google will return an extra page or two, but that's not very frequent.

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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by peatmoss on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:16PM (#13285536)

Maybe I'm searching in a way that biases in favor of Google? I'm willing to stick with DDG-first on principle alone, so perhaps DDG getting better + me figuring out subtlety of search will improve things.

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