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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by s_dev on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:34PM (#22140471)
You're not missing anything. Google is far better than DDG and I'm shocked people claim otherwise because it's so fairly self evident.

That said I try to use DDG when I can but I don't lie to myself that I'm using it because it has better results -- it doesn't. It has better approach to privacy and thats why I use it. The fact that they know less about the searcher intrinsitcally means the results of searches will be worse.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by Crash0v3rid3 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:54AM (#22146461)
I sometimes feel that we are in this echo chamber.

These threads always follow the same patterns, someone asks if they know of an alternative search engine and a HNer quickly mentions they have gone to DDG and haven't looked back.

DDG is decent but not even close to the search quality of Google. I know the folks here want to see Google dethroned but DDG won't do it.

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