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Comment by RKearney | Hacker News Reader

You can accomplish this for free by simply switching your search engine to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.

AMP is also used in other places e.g. any external links in Twitter when visited on mobile (IIRC)

Google is way better at some classes of searches, still.

For example duckduckgo produce nothing useful when you search Chinese keywords. DDG maybe good at doing English searches but Google obviously have much more resources.

I was wondering when you’d get here!

Agreed. But in those cases where I don't like DDG results, I like how I can add "!g" to the end of my search and it redirects the search to Google.

Doing this on mobile is really not fun, I wish it was a simple click in their results UI

You can do "g!" instead of "!g" on mobile. (And even hn! works, but not every other one.) This helped me considerably

Use whoogle then

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

I use Google because i) it displays stock price right on the search page. ii) it does match right on the search page.

If DuckDuckGo did smarter results like this, I'd quit Google. Heck I'd even throw in a few bucks.

http://www.startpage.com

Startpage is no good; sold out to an ad company

> I use Google because i) it displays stock price right on the search page.

So does DuckDuckGo; here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6nCNGZk

> ii) it does match right on the search page.

What do you mean by "match" here?

Google displays a chart with 1d-1m-ytd etc tabs as well.

> match

meant to say math.

If you still want to use Google, you can request the desktop site too. No amp links.

I don't know how much longer that will continue to work though. Many sites ignore it and show the mobile version anyway.

I have a new laptop on which I set DDG as default and have been tracking myself resorting to Google 50% of the time due to poor results.

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