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feels pretty good from just a few searches. I used DDG for some time as an alternative to google. In the end I had to switch back to google - the quality just wasn't as good as google's. Mojeek appears to have been around for 20+ years... is the business model just to sell search APIs to others?

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I've been using DDG for a few years now, but while I think the quality isn't there compared to Google 8 years ago, it seems reasonably similar to Google as of now.

That says more about Google dropping in quality than about ddg becoming any better.

also DDG has !bangs

Even if I were to use Google, I'd remain with DDG (using '!g'!) so I can use other bangs

The business model includes ads, according to their website.

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