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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by chime on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:23AM (#17282437)
> From a search engine perspective I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo and I’m impressed with how good it has gotten.

I switched to DDG over a year ago and it works great for things that are simple lookups to Wikipedia, IMDB etc. When I have an arcane Windows bug, I end up using "G!". Also DDG isn't that great for latest News but the Image search is pretty good.

I set DDG as the default search on my non-techie wife's new PC earlier this year and she has not once complained about the search qualify.

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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by godzillabrennus on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:49PM (#17298789)
I use it for python related development queries and it satisfies 95% of them these days. It was unusable two years ago. Things have changed.
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