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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by cgriswald on Sunday January 19, 2020 @12:07PM (#22092461)
'if not ddg(search) { ddg("!g " + search) }' has been my go-to method for awhile now; but as time has progressed, the results from DuckDuckGo have either been getting better, or the Google results have been getting worse; because usually if I can't find it on DDG now, I can't find it on Google either.
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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by thom on Sunday January 19, 2020 @01:09PM (#22092846)
I use DDG by default, but I can feel myself mentally flinching unless I basically know what I'm looking for already (i.e. I know I'll end up on StackOverflow). When I'm actually _searching_, it's useless, and I'll always !g.
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