Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by donut2d on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:14PM
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This was my experience with DDG as well. For everyday searches, it does a fine search. But it fails pretty miserably with complex technical queries which is probably 95% of what I use web search for. For that reason, after trying DDG for about a year (for the second time) I switched to startpage.com.
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by yekim on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:21PM
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Thx for the info on startpage.com. Never heard of it till this thread on HN. Just made it my homepage and added it to my tool bar.
I switched to DDG a couple years ago after becoming concerned about privacy. Unfortunately, DDG has never quite cut it for me in terms of search results. I do a TON of technology related searches, particularly wrt very obscure programming related technologies, especially related to embedded target dev. DDG always comes up short, and I typically end up doing "!g" searches. So startpage.com appears to the best blend of privacy + good search results. For me anyway...
Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by brightsize on Friday February 21, 2014 @01:06PM
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I use ixquick.com myself, which is, if I understand correctly, developed and run by the same company that runs startpage. Both are hardcore about privacy.
https://ixquick.com/eng/what-makes-ixquick-special.html