Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by jmholla on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:27AM
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> - Technical searches are usually on par with Google, or even better. What made me switch originally was that I got fed up with Google just straight up ignoring half my query, and I've had none of that frustration with DDG.
One thing I don't get from DDG is multiple links to the same website, especially stack overflow. I often find information I need to answer my question across several SO questions, but DDG will only ever direct me towards one solution.
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by arbol on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:00PM
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Yeah this is why I always end up reverting back to Google. It's just much better for finding answers to coding questions
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by devenblake on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:09AM
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Another thing for which DuckDuckGo is useless: finding media. It or whatever crawler it uses totally falls for those keyword-flooded sites that have a couple ads and then paragraphs of "wandavision watch free mr robot now free download all seasons season 1 101 dalmatians disney land[...]" autogeneration. I wish they'd do something about all the spam.
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by ethbr0 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @12:07PM
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I think torrent meta-crawlers might be more what you're looking for. Try the torrentz2 clones
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by teekert on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:21AM
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Did you set your location? I also though the results were pretty bad until I told ddg my location.
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by evertheylen on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:38AM
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Damn, that seems to actually work well! Thanks! I'll try it out more over the coming days, looks promising.
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by ethbr0 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @12:25PM
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It's a good UX quandary too: if there's information that improves the primary user intent (queries) that's privacy-sensitive (e.g. location), what's the most ethical way to permit the user to voluntarily submit that?
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by ravenstine on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:11AM
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It seems to do better with local searches in the US(not surprising) but it's still not very good at that. In terms of maps, DDG maps basically stinks besides the fact that the actual map UI is based on Apple Maps. It otherwise lacks a lot of features that MapQuest even had back in 1998.
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by DavinMiler on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:09AM
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When it comes to local searches, i recommend toggling the little switch on the left that limits searches to a specific country/language. I have found that this helps a lot.
Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year
by MildlySerious on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:08AM
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That reflects my usage pretty accurately as well. I am rarely on a DDG results page for non-technical topics because I always delegate to other sites via !bang, !g being the most common one.
- Technical searches are usually on par with Google, or even better. What made me switch originally was that I got fed up with Google just straight up ignoring half my query, and I've had none of that frustration with DDG.
- I like the dark theme (although I think Google's experimenting with that now)
- DDG is absolutely worthless when it comes to local searches like shops or even just nearby places (I live in Belgium). I always use '!g' for those. I also still use Google Maps.