Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
by 1457389 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @12:21AM
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Doesn't using the bang syntax invalidate any privacy or surveillance related reasons to use DDG?
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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
by pirateking on Saturday January 11, 2014 @12:31AM
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Definitely. It is just a handy multiplexer - I have a habit at this point to append every query with a bang.
On the occasions I forget, the DDG results seem to be improving. However, ~90% of my Google queries are computer related, and DDG (and even the !so bang) are not as relevant as Google yet for me. As soon as this use case improves enough, I will break my bang habit and use DDG directly for most of my queries.