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I consider DDG a no-bullshit less-creepy and infinitely less pushy and needy “skin” over Bing (and maybe some others) search results.

In my opinion you have:

- Google: best search results but you’re profiled to death - Bing: okay-ish search results and you’re profiled to death - DDG: okay-ish search results and you’re barely or not tracked at all

Easy choice for me.

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I've been surprisingly pleased with Kagi, a paid search engine in private beta right now. I believe they also use bing results was well as their own indexes. I've found the search results to be on par with Google and no longer feel the "well maybe google would find something this missed" anxiety from trying previous search engines. That being said, I've not given DDG a fair try but I appreciate the paid service model of Kagi. I do miss the shopping results on Google but that's really the only search use case I go back for.

There are other choices with the best of both worlds like you.com Especially good for developers via code.you.com

(founder here)

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