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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by godzillabrennus on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:44PM (#34799366)
I switched from Google search in 2017 to DuckDuckGo and haven’t looked back. I started switching family away to DDG during the pandemic and they haven’t noticed.

Google has a legacy moat but they aren’t the best by a noticeable amount anymore.

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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by simfree on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:07PM (#34799551)
DuckDuckGo hasn't had results on par with Qwant.com for me. I do find myself using DDG too often tho since it's default on Debian Firefox.
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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by ikt on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:44PM (#34799842)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, looks like we both had a similar path around the same time. I tried DDG very early on maybe 2012/13 and the results were awful but I tried it again in 2017 and found it works fine.

I have since moved to Ecosia a year or two ago as I found the results were very similar and have no issue with it.

Does make me sad the traffic page is gone: https://instruments.digital/duckduckgo-traffic-archive/

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