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Pure inertia. I'm going to change right now. Been meaning to do this for weeks. Just one change to one line in my i3 startup config and that will be that.

Update: I'm back in Firefox. Already been nagged twice by Google to use Chrome.

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Time to switch to DDG! It's come a long way in just a few years. It's my daily search engine and I have never looked back in reget.

Ireland being the small country it is, I generally found the results to be mediocre last time I tried. Still I'll give it a few days and see how I go.

If you're not already doing it--my fingers got used to ! commands really fast.

DDG isn't very good at searching, and isn't linked in any way to my Google account, so it's a severe convenience downgrade, with no visible benefit to my life.

> DDG isn't very good at searching

You can use the !g bang to search on google.

> with no visible benefit to my life.

The main advantage I personally see in using DDG is to be able to directly search on sites. For instance:

  * I need to lookup foo on wikipedia: !w foo
  * I need to search for foo on amazon: !a foo
  * I need to lookup a video on foo: !yt foo

All things you can do directly from your browser url bar.

My Opinion:

> DDG isn't [...] linked in any way to my Google account

That right there is a visible benefit to my life.

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