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I've been using duckduckgo exclusively for a year now on all my devices and I'm loving it.

The whole point of a search engine is to give you what you're looking for, and ddg delivers. If I ever need to Google something, I'll use !g query. You can make it look really nice also by changing it from the Default theme to Basic.

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I didn't realize you could do this on Android until I read this. I've been using DDG on desktop for a year or so. The trick is to visit DDG before you try to change your search engine. Otherwise, it's not listed as an option.

For me the "killer app" of Google search is location based searches. DDG is great but when I want to find a Petco nearby I don't want to use Yelp.

If you put "!g" at the start of your search, DDG automatically redirects you to the search result in google.

I've been using DDG as my search engine for about 2 1/2 years now, and I find absolutely no reason to go back to Google other than location search, and DDG proxies that easily.

I don't have any problem with just searching strings such as "coffee shop [city name]", etc.

Right. If I want to add that location based context it is up to me as a user, and not automatically assumed.

I always open Google Maps in this case; not the browser. Just my habit, I suppose.

Then why does Google constantly think I'm a city over? If their killer app is location search they suck at it.

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