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Are you saying that not using Google search has improved your quality of life?

pleeb 6y ago
Google search has gone significantly down in quality over the last year or so. Even just searching for simple things only seems to yield articles from the same 20 or so major websites, and it’s worse if you’re looking for niche items. DuckDuckGo on the other hand is starting to give relatively better and more diverse results these days.
- bdefore 6y ago
  The alternatives do not have better quality. I periodically go with DDG and realize I'm !g'ing everything.
  - Shorel 6y ago
    It totally depends on how do you write your search query: If you write "teen movie about vampires" or something equally vague, Google is king. If you write a direct quote or the exact error message, without typos, DDG gives better results. I can also put sentences in quotes to force an exact match. DDG is just an older school search engine, so old school tricks work better.
- narrator 6y ago
  I agree Google has gone downhill. DuckDuckGo is much better now.
mastazi 6y ago
Some of Google's products e.g. Youtube are designed to be addictive, and in my experience addiction decreases one's quality of life. I still use the !sp operator on Duckduckgo to get proxied google results, you don't need a Google account for that.
chrisco255 6y ago
Are you implying that Google search is any longer the only quality search engine? Honestly, I've been using DDG for years now and only less than 1% of my searches do I ever jump over to Google for.
approxim8ion 6y ago
It has for me. Most of my searches are pretty generic and DDG does well enough. It has a nice dark theme and is fast and clean. And the !bangs are extremely useful. Saving a couple of seconds and a couple of clicks every search when I want to land up on the arch wiki or wikipedia adds up over time and I find it hard to go back to google now.
bitcharmer 6y ago
In recent months I went from treating DuckDuckGo as some exotic search engine to using it many times a day. That is only because Google search is becoming useless, ad-ridden mess.

Google search has gone significantly down in quality over the last year or so. Even just searching for simple things only seems to yield articles from the same 20 or so major websites, and it’s worse if you’re looking for niche items. DuckDuckGo on the other hand is starting to give relatively better and more diverse results these days.

bdefore 6y ago
The alternatives do not have better quality. I periodically go with DDG and realize I'm !g'ing everything.
- Shorel 6y ago
  It totally depends on how do you write your search query: If you write "teen movie about vampires" or something equally vague, Google is king. If you write a direct quote or the exact error message, without typos, DDG gives better results. I can also put sentences in quotes to force an exact match. DDG is just an older school search engine, so old school tricks work better.
narrator 6y ago
I agree Google has gone downhill. DuckDuckGo is much better now.

mastazi 6y ago

Some of Google's products e.g. Youtube are designed to be addictive, and in my experience addiction decreases one's quality of life. I still use the !sp operator on Duckduckgo to get proxied google results, you don't need a Google account for that.

chrisco255 6y ago

Are you implying that Google search is any longer the only quality search engine? Honestly, I've been using DDG for years now and only less than 1% of my searches do I ever jump over to Google for.

approxim8ion 6y ago

It has for me. Most of my searches are pretty generic and DDG does well enough. It has a nice dark theme and is fast and clean. And the !bangs are extremely useful. Saving a couple of seconds and a couple of clicks every search when I want to land up on the arch wiki or wikipedia adds up over time and I find it hard to go back to google now.

bitcharmer 6y ago

In recent months I went from treating DuckDuckGo as some exotic search engine to using it many times a day. That is only because Google search is becoming useless, ad-ridden mess.