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I was surprised to read an article on DDG in a mainstream (albeit liberal) german newspaper "Die Zeit". It's getting press.

At the same time, I've tried http://www.hotbot.com again (last time I tried it perhaps 10 years ago) and I was quite pleased with the search results. So yes, there definitely is a world outside of Google. And it's working well.

But who else has GMail, Documents, Maps, Cache, Translate.. that's a major advantage for the #1.

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Bing.

Microsoft has Hotmail, Skydrive, Bing Maps, Cache, Translate and tons more.

The point was, who else has a good search engine and also offers other services.

I don't recall Bing as a good search engine.

And additionally, there are better services than Hotmail (like Gmail), Skydrive (like Google Docs), etc etc..

Serious question: Why would you want your search engine to be run by the same company that runs your email and cloud documents?

To provide better search results?

The answer is, you wouldn't if you're concerned about privacy. DDG delivers decent enough results and part of their philosophy is that they claim not to track users.

Bing is a very good search engine, pretty much identical to Google for my searches.

DDG's default search is Bing.

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