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0 pointskazen447y ago0 comments

you actually do not provide evidence for this. Mainly because google's searching is subjective. Your result for "go vs rust" might be entirely different from mine on google. mind you i don't actively use DDG, but them being privacy first, i assume they do not apply your prefence to search results this way.

Duckduckgo seems very useful to getting out of the specific bubble google has created for in relation to your search history.

(ps, i did not downvote you btw).

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the_other_guy7y ago· 1 in thread

>you actually do not provide evidence for this

I did, I listed 1 big evidence (the lack of indexing client-side rendered HTML), and also a simple example "rust vs go" that came to my mind. Take another example that I just tried, search "classical music only" in both engines and see the difference, this is a very popular youtube channel and has a website but nothing is shown in DDG for me.

As much as I want to join you guys against the big fat lazy monopolist called Google, I can't just make myself blind and claim that DDG is anywhere near to Google when it comes to accuracy or sophistication. If you really appreciate privacy, why not try something like Startpage instead of hyping another for-profit company?

kbenson7y ago

> I can't just make myself blind and claim that DDG is anywhere near to Google when it comes to accuracy or sophistication.

You don't have to, that's what !g is for. I start all my searched at DDG, and if I'm not seeing the results I want, I use !g. Somewhere around 80%-90% never require a redirect to Google for additional results, and that's a a number I can live with.

erikpukinskis7y ago

You can use an private browsing window to get more compareable results .

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