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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by gogopuppygogo on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:31PM (#24888078)
Have you used it lately?

It’s on par or better for 99% of what I use it for (tech, real estate, and advocacy).

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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by tptacek on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:46PM (#24888232)
I have. Also, I just checked my browser history of searches against DDG. I stand by what I said. What they're doing is impressive, but that's not the same thing as saying that they're on the same level of result quality as Google.
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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:47PM (#24888240)
I have to use !g a lot because of inferior results from the default search. It can be tough to even get a relevant wikipedia entry to show up in the top 5.
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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by depressedpanda on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:05PM (#24890372)
Not really. I usually just add 'wiki' to my query. Or use !w.
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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by bleepblorp on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:37PM (#24889216)
I use DDG daily. It's fine for simple, popular, searches (e.g. finding the website of a company by name) but is completely useless for anything even remotely complicated or specialized.

DDG won't even return Stack ("Your question has been deleted as a duplicate") Overflow results for technical questions.

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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by greenyoda on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:37PM (#24889685)
We must be asking very different technical questions, since I get lots of Stack Overflow results on DDG.
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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by leokennis on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:48AM (#24894365)
I disagree. Google has one strong point, which is "context search". For example, "song with the trumpet intro 90s" or something, will yield crap on DDG and a YouTube link to the song you had in your head on Google.

For any other search term, Google generally spams me with "answer boxes" that are universally slightly besides the point, while DDG gives me a clean page of relevant links.

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