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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by jrmg on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:34PM (#47185220)
DuckDuckGo is fine for quickly getting to well known sites where I can't remember the URL, but it's objectively worse for trying to find everything from Reddit threads to Recipes.

Agree with this. DDG just seems to have less ‘in’ it.

I’ve been playing with old 8052 microcontrollers recently, and it’s not unusual for DDG to return zero results on slightly esoteric technical searches, when Google will have plenty of relevant results (and it’s not just that Google is less strict about search terms - often I’m searching specifically for keywords).

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by nonfamous on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:10PM (#47187985)
As pointed out in the sibling thread, this isn’t DDG’s fault. Reddit has an exclusive agreement with Google [1] to index Reddit content, and other web search sites are blocked.

[1] https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-google-expand-partners...

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