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Re:De-Googling: My Progress by bad_user on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:17AM (#23015997)
For me all results are worse, computer science or not.

DDG completely ignores my country or when it doesn't, the results are misclassified. And you can forget about local searches, DDG being worse than useless for those.

What strikes me as odd is that DDG is worse for computer science results too.

DDG often ignores search terms that Google doesn't. And which terms it ignores is a complete guess, so you do this back and forth putting relevant query words in quotes to try and force it.

I use DDG as my default search engine, but there's no point in denying the obvious. UI might be nice, but UI is unimportant.

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Re:De-Googling: My Progress by soraminazuki on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:42AM (#23020537)
That’s odd, because from my experience, it’s Google that’s constantly ignoring my search terms. With Google, I often had to quote “every” “single” “keyword” when it came to searching for computer science stuff. With DDG, not as much.
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