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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by nxmnxm99 on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:17PM (#25392967)
Yeah I've tried DDG reliably for nearly a year. A good 30% of the time I end up having to run my query on Google anyway.

I will literally pay money for a search engine that's privacy focused and can get closer to Google in terms of performance.

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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by nanna on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:24PM (#25393064)
Personally I need to switch from ddg to Google maybe 0.1% of my searches, but at least for you you've managed to avoid Google 70% of the time, and it's not like adding a !g to do so takes more a milisecond.
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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by com2kid on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:42PM (#25394874)
For me, it is 70% I have to use Google.

Even for not-that-obscure bands, all DDG needs to do is return the wikipedia page and it fails to do that.

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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by tempestn on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:49PM (#25393918)
Right, but running 30% of your searches a second time, after looking through unhelpful results on the first attempt, takes more than a few ms.
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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by nxmnxm99 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:32PM (#25411078)
I agree, and I'm still very thankful for DDG. Would gladly pay to have someone take me even further.
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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by nitrogen on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:44PM (#25394887)
A good 30% of the time I end up having to run my query on Google anyway.

A 70% reduction in Google sounds like a win.

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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by nxmnxm99 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:33PM (#25411080)
Absolutely it is.
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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by danwills on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:21PM (#25393028)
I reckon I'd pay for that too, actually sounds really, really awesome (assuming the performance is there)
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Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a drive... by mkl on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:33PM (#25393159)
How long ago did you try DDG? Years ago I had a similar experience to you, and switched back, but now DDG is much better for me, and I only try !g < 5% of the time, often with no luck there either.
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