I agree that Google is slipping... but DDG is essentially just a Bing syndicator, which means their result quality will compete at the rate of Bing. Hard to see a threat there.
One of my clients have integrated their intranet solution with Microsoft and if I search on Bing while logged in I get relevant results from both the Internet and the company network!
Two observations:
- I'd not accept if Google did this (like many others I was a fanboy, and like someone said: Google have worked hard tp make me dislike them - and they have now succeeded. Between years of insultingly mismatched ads, search quality dropping 10 years ago and staying lower than before and the whole witch hunt affair a few months ago I now do dislike them.)
- Google had this, or at least search on my machine and on internet working with Google Desktop Search already back in 2006! (Of course they killed GDS after I think they'd ruined the market for everyone else by pushing the best solution for free for a couple of years.)
You and others keep saying this, but you really need to mention which non-English languages you are talking about as at least some of them are pretty good.
I've been using ddg as a default engine and wasn't aware of this. (also !ddgde is a lot more to type than !g)
With google, I sometimes wish I had an easy switch like that when the terms are also available in English as currently this makes their results useless.
!ddgde is indeed a bit long, but as most of my searches are not local, I can live with it ;)
It's not "You and others keep saying this... provide some examples".
It's that you have a tiny scope of what you consider to be the world.
No, that’s something you put into my mouth.
This is why I was asking. Unlike others, I explained which language works great. "Doesn’t work" is useless without saying what it doesn’t work for. "Does/Doesn’t work for language X" is actually relevant information.