Re:My Privacy Plan
by harlanlewis on Sunday June 09, 2013 @08:46PM
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> [DuckDuckGo] not as good as Google in terms of finding relevant results or having the rest of the ecosystem, but it's no worse than using the web a few years ago
About a year or so ago I was using DuckDuckGo for every search, but after a couple months switched back after falling into the habit of following almost every DDG search with another one on Google to make sure I was getting the real results.
Frustratingly, where DDG failed most was on the generic stuff where I expected to find results on the bigger sites. Esoteric searches are harder to judge, as neither engine reliably presented what I'd consider high-confidence results on first query.
About a year or so ago I was using DuckDuckGo for every search, but after a couple months switched back after falling into the habit of following almost every DDG search with another one on Google to make sure I was getting the real results.
Frustratingly, where DDG failed most was on the generic stuff where I expected to find results on the bigger sites. Esoteric searches are harder to judge, as neither engine reliably presented what I'd consider high-confidence results on first query.