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I have been using Duck duck go for few months now. Never missed Google. Slowly I will shift other services as well. It's a matter of societal good that we degoogle. Else Google will become strongest company ever created by mankind.

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I've been using DDG for more than a year. Just switched back a day or two ago. I just got sick of the terrible results. I don't know if Google got better or DDG/Bing got worse. A few months ago I started comparing search results and the Google ones where better and the other day I just couldn't handle doing double searches anymore.

Really sad to me that it came to this.

You can !g google in DDG when you need to. I often have to do, and hopefully DDG picks this up and improves their search.

Google has gotten a lot worse over the past 2 years. The SEO spam has outpaced Google's ability to find actually relevant results.

It's not just spam, using Google puts you into a bubble. Now, the search team will tell you they're doing it to curate the results to present high-quality information, but it's still a bubble in the end. It's very harmful if you're trying to understand what other people are thinking and seeing without filters.

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