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DuckDuckGo vs. Google Infographic

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The viewer of the infographic is terrible, post a large png please.

Yeah, the first thing I did was looking for the original PNG, here it is:

http://optilocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DuckduckGO_f...

I don't know whether it's search habits, or what, but 80% of searches I do on DuckDuckGo I look at the results, sigh, and prepend !google.

Ya know you can just do !g right? Also you can get google results by using startpage. I default ddg then fall back to !sp (startpage) if I don't get what I want.

Same here, so [shameless plug] I wrote http://goosegoosego.com which is just a redirector for Google/DDG which you can trivially run locally. It defaults to Google, and you can search DDG via !ddg

It gives you the advantage of having access to the !Bang syntax (https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html), while providing IMO better search results via Google by default.

I know how you feel. Does anyone else feel like a niche search engine is the only way a smaller player can get quality results?

I find that I get more relevant answers with DDG, but in the rare cases where I need a look at Google, I just append !sp to my search term. For the sake of privacy and just to support a search engine that is fighting tracking, I'll gladly give 3-4 extra keystrokes to support it.

The scale on the "searches" graph is horrible, some sort of broken linear scale which makes it impossible to gauge growth or make any useful comparison. They really need logarithmic scale there.

I'm not even sure how to read the number of annual searches from this graph. Why is there a different scale for Google vs. DuckDuckGo...?

They probably want to point out the growth rate of DuckDuckGo, something that would be impossible if they compared against Google's rates.

Logarithmic scale solves that problem if you're interested in the rate of growth.

That must be intentional.

I give DDG a shot every once in a while, then go back to Google when I realize I have to put !g in there most of the time just to get a good result. It obviously works better for someone, but that someone is not me. The privacy-from-the-NSA angle is uncompelling when DDG is affected by the same laws that make my data on Google vulnerable. If DDG were being forced to log, they wouldn't be able to tell you.

The compelling part for me is the anti-tracking and anti-monetization of every data point. Personally, I prefer being outside of a bubble too.

Frankly, I'd prefer less anonymization in my search results. It's always annoying to me when I type in some programming related but generic sounding query, and the first programming result is at the bottom of the page.

Google should know me better than that by now.

The infographic is siding with DuckDuckGo very much...

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