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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by ravenstine on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:54PM (#23339539)
Not to delegitemize your use of `!g`, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who never needs to use that, and if that's true, I think we need to hear more from the people who are perfectly happy with DDG by itself.

Who else here doesn't use !g?

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by acheron on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:50PM (#23341735)
Same. I've been using DDG regularly since.. I don't know, 2013 maybe. (iOS 8 added DDG as a choice for a default search engine; that was at the end of 2014, and I had already been using DDG for quite awhile when that happened.)

It's been a long time since I used !g for anything. I did for awhile as an alternate search, but eventually it stopped being helpful -- if I didn't find any good results in DDG, then the Google results didn't help either. At this point it's probably been a couple years since I did a !g for anything.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:59PM (#23341014)
I'm sure I used it once when I was trying out the bang commands. After that, I don't think I have. It just hasn't been necessary to find what I need.
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