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This. DDG is my primary search engine now and has been for awhile.

I don't use Google anymore to search unless I really need to. The algos they use today are not the same classic ones that actually returned results.

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Same. For the sorts of searching I do, anyway, the results I get from DDG tend to be better than what I get from Google. Google tries to infer what I want rather than take me at my word, and is very bad at it.

And if you really need to, DDG !bangs[0] make a search as simple as "!g mother google help me". The keyword thing is also available in Firefox as a browser feature, and elsewhere I'm sure, but nevertheless, it makes switching to DDG easier.

(Plus I can directly go to the wiki page by using "!w", "!gm" for google maps, etc.)

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang

The only bang I use is !gvb since DDG doesn't support verbatim searches.

Is this the same as enclosing the terms in quotes and using the !g bang?

it's a google "verbatim" search. I don't know if enclosing each term separately in quotes does the same thing, but this is easier anyway.

I didn't know about the verbatim search. I'm going to give it a try, thanks

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