• uglyduckling81@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Duck duck go needs a lot of work to replace Google search.

    I’ve used it for years but often I still get the shits and just bring Google up after duck duck go fails to find what I’m looking for.

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      1 year ago

      For 9 of 10 search DDG give me what I’m looking for in the top results, for the other time I just add g! to the search and its sends me to google.

    • jfx@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I’d hate using the internet without it.

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        1 year ago

        I felt the same way. Lately, though, ddg has been serving unrelated garbage ads in the middle of my searches. I am now looking for something new. Startpage has some decent results so far…

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, have had a similar experience. I find the more specific or niche a question is, the better google is at finding relevant pages. DDG is perfectly fine the rest of the time, though, so I keep it as the default.