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Re:The next Google by hans1729 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:54PM (#30923294)
>it only gets away with it because it owns the web browser through Chrome, Android and its Apple deal for Safari.

From someone who tried the switch to duckduckgo and uses ddg as the default engine: I can't remember the last query I typed without adding "!g". Google doesn't get my queries because the service is shoved down my throat, it gets them because the alternatives I tried are worse wrt the total scope of my queries.

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Re:The next Google by richardsocher on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:34PM (#30925969)
Would love your feedback on https://you.com - actually has most capabilities that G has and also has the same bangs as DDG.
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Re:The next Google by TheLegace on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:16PM (#30946515)
Just tried to search "t-sne" was pleasantly surprised the first result [1] was what I found on DDG and a good result. Compared to Google which couldn't even find it on the first page. Most of Google's result are not exactly useful, and the only useful article is not my favorite in terms of quality. Order being.

1. Wiki article 2. Github repo 3. API documentation 4. Introduction with Python Code(Not my fav quality article) 5. Guide in R 6. Research article

I can't quantify what is better. But Google didn't give me what I wanted but DDG and you.com did. So congrats. My only issue is seeing Medium articles above the web results. While Medium might have the answer in this scenario the top web result was correct but de-prioritized which was incorrect from my prespective.

UI is nice and fast, different too. Not sure if I love yet, but will keep trying. Thanks for the link. [1] https://towardsdatascience.com/t-sne-clearly-explained-d84c5...

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Re:The next Google by hans1729 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:08AM (#30930013)
I looked for "Rewe" to see wether I get informations about local supermarkets, got a panel-view that is expensive to parse (eyes have to move in multiple directions, content is not clearly focussed), and was rewarded by getting no information about the local markets. Panel view only, forever, seriously, ONLY makes sense if you already know all the elements that will be displayed. Two giant rows of icons are terrible UX. Please make your default view easily-digestible. I enter a query, get a set of results. That set needs to be represented in a way that the brain actually wants to operate on. Nobody wants to operate on a set by digesting a table of unknown contents. The correct UX is a list.

I didn't bother checking customization-options, the ux was hostile and the results did not give me what I want. Pass, sorry.

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Re:The next Google by dannywarner on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:27PM (#30926474)
Dude why do you have to fill these threads about all the spam on search with yet more spam promoting your crappy Bing-based search engine. Just let the conversation happen without all the self promotion ok? Jeez Louise this is annoying!
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