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I haven't switched due to finding the $10/month subscription too steep at the moment, but I concur that the quality of search results is high. Often higher than Google actually. Sadly, pre-pending !g to general searches on DDG is practically muscle memory by now.

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Been using it since the beta and would agree about the search quality.

$10 is also to steep for cost of living in my area. Hopefully something like region-dependent pricing comes in the future (although I feel like that's going to be tough with managing expenses so I understand if that's not going to happen). I do hope this succeeds though.

Why not just use DDG !g search as your default search?

E.g., in Firefox, bookmark

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!%s

and save it with the keyword gg (or whatever)

Now whenever you enter gg searchterm in your location bar, it's the same as searching !g searchterm on DDG.

If I understand correctly DDG !g simply redirects you to Google so this is effectively the same as using Google plus a superfluous redirect.

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