I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here’s why.

Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by vklj on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:42AM (#5961868)

You can keep DDG as your default search engine, and use the !g bang command to redirect the most difficult queries to Google. You get the best of both worlds (except for some cognitive load when deciding which engine to use).

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by qwertzlcoatl on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:22AM (#5962071)

I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by default.

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by narozik on Saturday June 29, 2013 @08:01AM (#5962136)

But this would foil what OP expects from google, a.k.a. to be geolocalized and tracked to be served personalized results.

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by jeena on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:51AM (#5962012)

I switched last December and do exactly that and am very happy with that solution.

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by denzil_correa on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:56AM (#5962027)

I'm really surprised that the author did not try this option.

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by gateaumoisi on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:14AM (#5962062)

i'm doing that too, ddg have no picture search, right?

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by aclevernickname on Saturday June 29, 2013 @01:31PM (#5963124)

unless you count !image, which redirects to GIS.

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Re:I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here... by tripzilch on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:51PM (#5963828)

!gi is shorter :)

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