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Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News (www.reuters.com)
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[–] uglyduckling81@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Duck duck go needs a lot of work to replace Google search.

I've used it for years but often I still get the shits and just bring Google up after duck duck go fails to find what I'm looking for.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Huh I'm also a regular DDG user but I never have that experience.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 year ago

For 9 of 10 search DDG give me what I'm looking for in the top results, for the other time I just add g! to the search and its sends me to google.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I'd hate using the internet without it.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I felt the same way. Lately, though, ddg has been serving unrelated garbage ads in the middle of my searches. I am now looking for something new. Startpage has some decent results so far....

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, have had a similar experience. I find the more specific or niche a question is, the better google is at finding relevant pages. DDG is perfectly fine the rest of the time, though, so I keep it as the default.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I usually forget I'm using it. Exception is for work - I frequently have to specify g! to get Stackoverflow results to show up at the top.

[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The android app is nice, especially the app tracking blocker. It takes up the VPN connection tho