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CountmaculaIs ddg any good?
I feel like Bing would just be better at this point.
avateryep it is quite good
TheMediocreOneIt does show you more relevant results based on your query, withou doing any guessing about what you might have meant by it.
That being said, sometimes I use Google to search for something when DDG is giving me bad results.
But overall I would recommend, it’s muxh more better experience with the results I am seeing.
I have tried Bing for a while as well, but it was thinking too much instead of just showing me the results.
discodoubloonI find that when I’m looking for very specific things Google is still king but DDG is much better for broad strokes.
I’d say the opposite: ddg can get me what I want, if I know exactly what I want. If I’m just vaguely guessing, ddg us as good as my guess, while Google tries to guess with me and it works out sometimes.
The only reason I had to use Google was to search by image. Which is a feature DDG doesn’t have sadly.
For specific search, I found perplexity.ai to be much better and faster, it uses AI to scan the websites and give summaries as to why they are relevant to your query.
Ddg results are pretty horrible in my experience. Statpage (google results) and brave search both have better results.
Yeah, brave search is what I use for my main searches, but ddg bangs do come in useful. Brave has it too.
Bangs are essential, especially if you use DDG HTML, which doesnt have tabs for different kinds of searches
Shout out to startpage! I use it almost exclusively and it is great.
Brave Search is awful for non-English results. Startpage is decent but only because it’s basically Google results.
I can’t speak to non-English results, and I agree Startpage is just a Google proxy.
circuitfarmerAfter 2 years of exclusive use: yes. It’s just as good if not better. Google is filled with ads and Bing just sucks.
snoweDDG is bing.
ripcordBing does potentially have slightly worse results, what with the "personalized" (tracking-based, ad/promoted) results. But yeah.
*modified bing
I’ve used it for a few months, and in the end I was always using !g
It’s just not good enough in a lot of contexts. I’m having a much better time with kagi
I have been using it exclusively for years. Does its job most of the time and when it doesn't and I include Google results (via bang !g) Google doesn't really find it either.
However, I've opted out of most Google services in parallel, so their model of me probably isn't the best anymore. If in their bubble, their results may still be better (creeps me out though, so I live with non-perfect search).
VeraxusIt’s okay. If you want something genuinely as good as Google, if not better, Kagi is what you want.
Upvote this question, it’s pretty relevant to the issue of whether this would have been good for Apple (no, it would not have been)
DDG is my default search on mobile, but half the time I end up back on Google. Google is better at guessing exactly what I want and giving that content fast, such as the weather, people always ask answers, or quick facts about things that saves me from loading the site underneath the result.
But sometimes I know exactly what I want and Google won’t give it to me - because it decided I want something else.
That’s where a well built query can work better on DDG. However… DDG is more susceptible to backlink spamming and old school SEO techniques to rank content near the top. So depending on the people behind the search results, some queries are fine and some can still be garbage.
Also for image and video search Google is top.
Ddg is Bing with less tracking. I mean, literally it is Bing.