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0 pointsspauldo9mo ago0 comments

It's really strange, while I agree Google's results aren't as good as they used to be, they're still miles ahead of DDG for me. Is it because I still use keyword search like it's the early 2000s?

I tried to switch to DDG because Google was blocking Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels. DDG is still my homepage but I usually end up clicking the bookmark I made for ipv4.google.com. I wish I knew why DDG works for all you people but it's horrible for me.

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jononor9mo ago

Does you Google actually respect the keywords? For me, most of the times it replaces words with "synonyms" (mostly wrong context or not really replaceable). And results are pretty crap as a result - no what I was looking for, but just much more common/generic stuff.

spauldoOP9mo ago

If I put them in quotes, yeah.

cheschire9mo ago

Isn’t DDG basically Bing with a privacy layer?

spauldoOP9mo ago

That's what I've been told. I haven't tried Bing directly because... eww... but I assume the results would be similar to DDG.

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0 pointsspauldo9mo ago0 comments

It's really strange, while I agree Google's results aren't as good as they used to be, they're still miles ahead of DDG for me. Is it because I still use keyword search like it's the early 2000s?

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jononor9mo ago

spauldoOP9mo ago

If I put them in quotes, yeah.

cheschire9mo ago

Isn’t DDG basically Bing with a privacy layer?

spauldoOP9mo ago

That's what I've been told. I haven't tried Bing directly because... eww... but I assume the results would be similar to DDG.

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