The world needs more search engines

Re:The world needs more search engines by mrweasel on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:59PM (#21677749)

When DDG doesn't yield the results I'm looking for, I will frequently try Google, but more and more I find that if DuckDuckGo can't find the results that I want, then neither can Google. What Google can do however, is annoy me with results that it knows to be wrong, because it is excluded the most specific part of my query. Google will remove the bit that absolutely had to be in the query, to get more hits on the majority of the remaining words.

In the end, I think most people could use either Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo and be happy with the results. It's just that we're stuck on "Google is the best search engine", and while that may be true in some technical sense, many of the other search engines are just as good for most of us.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by Laakeri on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:08PM (#21678135)

For the "most of us" point, keep in mind that Google has a superior international infrastructure. At least in Finland, DuckDuckGo's loading time for search results is about 2 seconds compared to Google's <0.5s. This makes using ddg surprisingly annoying.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by yabadabadoes on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:26PM (#21679170)

Google? No, Yandex.. obviously not blocked in Russia, also not blocked in China.

I don't really notice any infrastructure problems for ddg in Europe though, so Finland may be atypical?

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Re:The world needs more search engines by thomasedwards on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:55PM (#21679496)

I have the same problem in Japan. Certain times of the day DDG seems like it’ll never load and I normally switch to Google after about 4 or 5 seconds.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by weberc2 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:10PM (#21677801)

I’ve found the opposite. For the last year, I have to resort to Google more and more often. DDG was on par with Google when I started using it a couple years ago, but it has managed to get worse and worse over time. Note that I’m specifically claiming DDG’s performance has degraded; not just that it has remained the same while Google’s has improved.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by smartasspolice on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:52PM (#21726330)

try startpage

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Re:The world needs more search engines by jacobsenscott on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:31PM (#21679418)

In my experience DDG's results are mostly 10+ year old "yahoo answers" posts, while google searches tend to be up to date and relevant.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by bransonf on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:18AM (#21680236)

I remember a time when Google would turn up countless Yahoo answers posts. Now it’s all Quora.

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