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I would really love to switch but it still pales in comparison to google on a lot of searches.

http://bit.ly/1ur3zP2 vs. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=medium+top+collections

It uses the bing / yahoo APIs, and it doesn't use search context / user profiling to attempt to fuzzy guess your intended results.

not sure what are you talking about. Google results for me are as follow:

1. medium.com/collections

2. medium.com/top100/may-2013 (what I would be looking for except it's from last year)

3. an article with the title "Top Medium Collections everybody should follow"

4. images (why here?) of... purses and drawer handles?(wtf? why is this here?)

5. List of Medium collections | Niccolò Brogi

At the side some advertising for something that looks like bird cages or outdoor lamp protectors from Google Shops and "Tops at Macy's‎"

DDG's:

1.Medium Top 100 for March 2014 (much more recent than googles and at 1st position)

To be honest DDG's other results were pretty much garbage for this query, but in the end of the day it brought me a much more relevant page in it's number 1 spot without tracking me.

Maybe you trained google well. I have not used it much in ages

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