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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by toxican on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:07PM (#8743270)
I have but one, and it's that it consistently fails to find me what I need as well as Google does. I made a serious effort this week to use DuckDuckGo and made it my default search engine. I wasted so much time googling stuff I'd just DDG'd to find what I actually wanted. I love and support DDG fully, but Google still does search better, imo.

Apparently !g is a thing though? I may have to give that a try so I can have the benefits of DDG, but the results of google.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by iopq on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:39PM (#8743367)
Yeah, I usually search with DDG and then add !g to it when I don't find anything good in my first search results
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by thomasfoster96 on Friday December 12, 2014 @08:23PM (#8743694)
Well, !g will just redirect you to Google Search.

And I've noticed lately that DuckDuckGo has gotten much better at short queries lately, at the expense of longer queries. Any query over about 4 words goes straight to Google.

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