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Andrew_nenakhov

I'm using ddg on all my devices for ~2 or 3 years now, and it is fine by my standards. YMMV, of course.

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Ddg is usually adequate for my needs, but especially with code related searches, I often have to fall back to google.

I’m glad ddg exists, and it’s nice to see them improving over time.

I have this workflow:

- use DDG

- if I can't find it, attach !g to my query and be instantly on Google

- either confirm Google can't find it either

- or found it

this way DDG get important data to improve their technology, I avoid being tracked most of the time and I get the same results for the cost of a few seconds here and there.

Yes, DDG isn't exactly amazing for anyone who used Google before 2009, but neither is the "Google" lookalike we see today ;-)

You can use !s instead of !g and you get the google results through startpage without going to google directly.

Good point! I guess !g is just a old habit that I should upgrade now.

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