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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by actuator on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:03PM (#24246393)
Even after using DDG for the last 5-6 years, I find myself always using !g with it. So much that, it has become a muscle memory thing and sometimes I type it involuntarily.

Sure, if I just care about US specific results and I am doing an exact term search or maybe StackOverflow result is my target, DDG comes close but Google gets context of things much better. I keep finding much better search results that had more context with my search. I don't know how to quantify/measure this but to me Google Search is still much better.

Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by maps7 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:02PM (#24246846)
> it has become a muscle memory thing and sometimes I type it involuntarily.

Same. I sometimes even type '!g' into Google itself by mistake

Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by jabirali on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:31PM (#24248491)
I ended up with the same muscle memory. That’s why I eventually just switched to StartPage.com instead, which is basically a Google proxy.