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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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