100%. I have not used google in about roughly 15 years. DDG has been my daily driver since 2010
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For me they are even better than Google. But I use Qwant now.
My thought always was that DDG was good to set as my default, and if I'm not happy with the results then it's not a big deal to use Google once in awhile.
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It's not as good as google was when I was first allowed to use the internet 15+ years ago, but much better than today's google. Just so much more peace of mind to know that profit isn't what governs my search results.
It still kinda does, since it's Bing under the hood.
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"just as good"? No, I feel it is (and has been for years) vastly superior but I mostly use it to find documentation or Stack Overflow answers so consistent UI and concise summaries are high priority to me. Take that as you will
I don't think anybody can dethrone Google Maps yet but that's another story
I still haven't found Google to be worse than Bing yet.
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I've had to use !g way too much lately, so no.
Whats that do?
Bangs, used to move the search to another site, in this case google
isn't it just a bing wrapper?
Yup.
No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.
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DDG does the job. Hopefully, I won't have to switch engines soon.
Wait 'til you learn that DDG's engine is Bing
I love DDG AI
Just dont use ChatGPT but one of the other models. I find LLama to work fine.
Yeah, I trust DuckDuckGo. And I like they anonymize my AI queries. I feel like itβs the next best thing to running it locally.
"Trust me bro"
Does their 'anonymizing queries' feat mean anything if they don't disclose how it works or what that even means literally?
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