Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by krimpenrik on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:13PM
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Have the same, really want to like ddg for over a year but I almost hit !g every time
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by dnautics on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:33PM
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In practice ddg is great for everything except searching for programming related things. I guess Google knows I'm a programmer and filters my results accordingly. Sadly about 60% of my searches are programming-related.
Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by trickstra on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:39AM
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Programmer here. I've been using DDG for about 2 years and only find myself desperately going to google about once per month. And that's usually for image search. Google's results now seem to me too "commercial" as if all the spots were just sold, offering me something they want to sell, not what I want to search.
Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by Semaphor on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:15PM
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DDG is great for me for almost everything (including programming) besides very long tail results, specifically rare error messages.
Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
by larusso on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:19AM
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I use ddg exclusively on all my devices for over three years now and can‘t complain. I had no reason to switch to g! for any topic I needed results. So I wonder if I would solve issues in programming faster or not using google. I never had the feeling my programming related searches are not spot on.