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scribbyshollow t1_itvdgfv wrote

who cares we don't need google anymore, its become so full of ads that its the modern day yahoo of search engines. Duckduckgo is way better and the first page of results isn't all people who paid to be there. Honestly it be better for the overall internet if they went. More room for people to start up new websites, people who arn't already huge corporate sellouts who collect everyones data and sell it.

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linkerman300 t1_itvejr7 wrote

I’ve used duck duck go it sucks at searching anything even when I put Reddit at the end of the search it dosnt bring up Reddit threads. I wanted to use it for privacy but if I can’t find anything I’m searching for what’s the point

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SnoopysAdviser t1_itvqnq0 wrote

Agree DDG is just not as good as Google search.

And DDG has ads as the first few entries when you search.

I still use both, but Google search still wins in general for finding what I really need.

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Dornith t1_itvywo2 wrote

>I put Reddit at the end of the search it dosnt bring up Reddit threads.

Use site:reddit.com

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Witty_Tomato666 t1_itvtfkc wrote

Lol, Google processes over 8.5 billion searches per day

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scribbyshollow t1_itvzlzh wrote

not because its needed though, other search engines exist and do fine. People use google because its the most recognizable at this point.

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745395 t1_ityyikw wrote

> People use google because its the most recognizable at this point.

And because it provides better results. Like Google or not, that's the truth.

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Obviouslydoesntgetit t1_itvxyej wrote

Duck duck go was unusable for me. I switched because of all the benefits they touted and found myself searching for what i wanted to find, getting no results that fit what i was looking for and then typing in google.com just to search it again. I decided to cut out the middleman after 2 weeks of poor search results.

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scribbyshollow t1_itvz6cu wrote

I have never had a problem with the search. Haven't had to use google in years outside of the map services it offers.

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LunaticSongXIV t1_itx1i8p wrote

Thing is, people use search engines in different ways. One user might use keyword-based search queries. Another person might use natural language. Different search engines will handle those differences in different ways.

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745395 t1_ityghlb wrote

That's the problem with all these privacy focused searches. They're TOO private. There's nothing wrong with collecting info to provide better results. Just be transparent about how you use that data, and don't mistreat user's data. One-size-fits-all search does not work.

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green-tank t1_ityiqz4 wrote

In the vast majority of searches it works well for me bit for those rare cases where I don't and I habe the feeling google would have done better I just type "g! whateveritrytofind" and it automatically searches in google and displays the results.

So default is duckduckgo for me and the fallback is google without much effort.

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