Google Alternatives

Re:Google Alternatives by kennywinker on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:34PM (#25382340)

I've fully switched to DDG. I still bounce over to google maybe 5-10% of the time, but to me that's a pretty big win. 90-95% of the time I avoid being tracked by google at the cost of 5-10% of the time wasting a few seconds skimming results on ddg before jumping to google.

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Re:Google Alternatives by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:54AM (#25383718)

You can make a more specific query instead.

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Re:Google Alternatives by kennywinker on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:02AM (#25384078)

Actually, this in anecdotal, but i believe most of the cases where ddg lets me down are when the query is VERY specific. More general searches seem to have no diff between google and ddg results.

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Re:Google Alternatives by kilnr on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:54AM (#25384354)

This is my intuition as well. As soon as the query gets too specific, I'll just tack on a "!g".

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Re:Google Alternatives by loughnane on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:27AM (#25385437)

This is precisely my approach. I’m an engineer so sometimes need to make very esoteric searches, but I’ve been using DDG for coming up on 10y.

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