Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: Our story with Mozilla

Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by artyomavanesov on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:46PM (#21768621)

I like the focus on user intent. After all, the purpose of search is to provide users with information, not present them with a list of search results.

Recently I switched from Chrome + Google Search to Firefox + DuckDuckGo and I'm pleased, surprised even, by how well this setup works. The user experience is great and the search results of both setups usually correspond.

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Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by jszymborski on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:04PM (#21768702)

Whenever I fix or setup computers for friends/family, I sneak in Firefox + DDG. Every time I've asked if they've noticed a change with "the internet" and internet search, I've only ever got "nope" or "there's a duck now". No mention of "it's worse" or "I want it changed".

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Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by artyomavanesov on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:50PM (#21768872)

It's because Google is so widely used that people are not aware of how good the alternatives are/have become.

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Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by pier25 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:44AM (#21771360)

I switched to FF + DDG too recently. I do miss some features from Chrome such as multilingual spell check but if I switched back I'd miss some from FF such as completely blocking autoplay.

DDG has been totally fine. I don't miss Google at all.

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