DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use by tracker1 on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:38PM (#22507097)

I switched for about a month... for most general searches ddg was as good or better... when searching for development terms as a programmer, I found that the ddg results were often worthless to me. The context that google has associated to you specifically adds value to the results.

Since most of my searches were for technical libraries, components, etc, I found myself searching again with !g more than half the time... after the month was up, I switched back. There are a LOT of things I like about ddg though.

It would be nice if DDG offered search roles, that could prioritize certain associated terms together for someone that is say a programmer, engineer, social media person, etc. This could be opt-in to maybe a dozen categories to skew results on one way or another, but not tied to a person per-se.

Also, a shorter domain name would help.

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Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use by mdaniel on Friday March 06, 2020 @05:24PM (#22507914)

> Also, a shorter domain name would help.

I'm surprised your browser doesn't just search from the "awesome bar", making navigating to the domain a non-event

However, the answer to your question is ddg.gg (unknown if that's short enough, but it's only 3 keys to press)

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Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use by vinclou on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:26PM (#22508354)

I use DDG for 2 years already, and I'm a developer, I've never experienced ur problem, and I do search for technical stuff all the time. I dont see how DDG can fail to show u a documentation or library result, especially if you know what u are looking for

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Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use by vitro on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:47AM (#22510820)

duck.com :)

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