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I'm the opposite - search is the only Google service I use (apart from occasionally recce-ing bike rides on Street View). I've tried to wean myself off it, and have succeeded for casual browsing on mobile, but for programming queries I don't find Bing or DDG anywhere near as good.

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You could use DDG and then add "!g" at the beginning for your programming queries.

Right, which is what everybody does, and then develops a reflex for !g on every query because DDG really doesn't work well for any sort of technical query.

I keep hearing this, but personally fine that in the rare case I try !g for better results I don't get anything better.

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