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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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