• Mikina@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I've switched to DDG almost a year ago, and I never had issues with my search results. Quite the contrary, every time I tried using !g because I simply wasn't finding an answer, the Google was ad-ridden bullshit full of promoted pages without relevance to what I was looking for.

    I guess I'm just used to DDG quality of results, but I never felt like it's as bad as you say.

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      1 year ago

      That depends very heavily on what your searching for.

      If you're a programmer or similar, like the poster you're replying to appears to be, then you absolutely will find DDG crap compared to Google.

      I use DDG as my primary search engine, but if I have a tech question, I usually skip it and go straight to Google.

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        1 year ago

        I work part-time as a game developer, and part time as a pentester, so I do search for technical questions quite a lot.

        Hmm, now I wonder whether I'm just used to it. I haven't used any other search engine in more than a year. I'll have to compare the results more, but as far as I remember every time I couldn't find what I needed on DDG and resorted to !g, the Google results were even worse.

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      1 year ago

      I am with you. I don't know what this guy's about about the search results of Google. A couple comments above people were complaining about the terrible results googles ad driven engine spews out. Also saying he's so tech savvy and needs the Google "quality", somehow not knowing !g just completely circumvents the benefits of DDG

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      1 year ago

      I work in IT and use the search engine around 100 times a day in order to find specific answers to specific edge cases. DDG results are just too generic most of the time.

      But once they get better, oh yeah.