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Who needs Google when thee is DuckDuckGo anyway? Switched to DuckDuckGo (after getting mad of Google demanding me to solve captchas all the time) about a year ago... 100% satisfied.

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while i've left DDG as my default search, it's not particularly good, i always find myself appending "!g" to get to google results instead... so much so that when google results are terrible (on some poorly worded searches or vague topics) i automatically append a "!g" by habit on google.

as for why i've left it as default? well it's just convenient to have the shortcuts.

I left google for ddg because google search results are complete shit these days "systemd raunchy variables" google will remove whatever it's not popular in their search results "raunchy" and I have no way of forcing it to either include the missing word or not display any results.

Sadly ddg is also doing the same thing, whenever I use bangs to search on google I get results that are just as bad.

Oh, put the word (or exact phase) you REALLY want results for in quotation marks and scream "did I f'in stutter?"

I forgot about this situation, true that it gets super frustrating

Also Qwant is very good (https://www.qwant.com/)

I've tried using it but at least for technical-related searches it doesn't event approach the quality of results I get from Google

Are you using a proxy or tor? I have never been asked a CAPTCHA on Google even with auto-deleting cookies and no javascript.

I was asked a CAPTCHA every couple of weeks during heavy bursts of search, but this was only when I used the https://encrypted.google.com along with similar privacy measures to you. I was also on a VPN sometimes.

Not OP, but captchas pop up when I use proxies and tor. If you're not logged into a google account, you usually need to solve more than one captcha and it gets frustrating quickly. Luckily DDG does not treat tor and proxy traffic suspiciously.

Probably the answer is quite simple: Google has more money to offer.

Apparently DDG actually offers some money. Seamonkey is getting some funding when people use DDG on that browser. It is currently the default for Seamonkey.

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