We can do better than DuckDuckGo

Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by sightmost on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:04AM (#25133677)

I am typing this from India. DDG never provides satisfactory results for anything country specific. As an example, point 6 above is a failure. I used to have DDG as my default, but my workflow got so convoluted that I would search first on DDG, see that the results as not good, open google and search again. It is so frustrating that I switched back to Google even when I didn't want to.

Edit: typos.

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Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by miccah on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:32AM (#25133795)

I'm sure others have commented this elsewhere, but DDG has bang operators.

For your use case, simply append !g to the DDG search and it will do a Google search instead.

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Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by bigdict on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:34AM (#25133802)

Right, but Google supports Google search without bang operators.

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Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by Deely123123 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:18AM (#25134038)

No way!

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Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by Semaphor on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:00AM (#25133933)

Did you use localized search or the general search? For me 6 works great with !ddgde

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Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by mschulze on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:08AM (#25133983)

Thank you, I didn't know that feature. I almost always used g! to switch to Google when searching for country specific terms, guess I can change that now.

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Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo by blntechie on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:16AM (#25135112)

I don’t find a !ddgde equivalent operator for India(en).

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