I like DDG a lot more, especially because of the bang shortcuts. But I transitioned recently to Qwant. It also has bang shortcuts and is hosted in Europe.

It’s just as good as 2008 google, which is all I want.

Yes, I switched back in 2023 and noticed it was already better than google.

All major search engines feel like they’re either filled with AI slop results, or just only returning major corporations’ sites anymore, though. DDG just falls into the latter, while Google is mostly the former.

It’s my primary but Google unfortunately is often a fallback. And Google is tracking the shit out of us these days. Certain obscure searches don’t work well on DDG, sad to say.

Google is almost unusable for me even with ad block. I’ve been using DDG for the last 3 or so years now.

Naw. I use Kagi (paid) now, and get much better search results.

I’ve been using DDG since 2016 and never felt it was worse in terms of “search quality” than Google.

Especially nowadays I hear friends whine near weekly about Google, but it’s still somehow “better than DDG”.

Honestly people just make excuses not to change what they’re use to. Even if what they’re used to has changed around them for the worse.

My only real complain I have is I wish ‘search by date range’ was less finicky use and also worked in the image tab like it does in Google images.

no. i switch to using it as my primary search engine every once in a while, just to see how it’s doing. i always run into situations where i can’t find the thing im looking for. maybe im just the obscure searches man

Don’t you mean DuckDuckBing ?

No. I was using big for the rewards points for a long time, the results were fine. I switched to kagi for ~6 months and it was good too. Since it’s a little expensive I switched to DDG to see if I noticed a difference, it’s been a little worse in comparison.

Probably so. Haven’t used it much but Google has got so much worse. Being filled with adds and irrelevant results that DuckDuckgo probably is better now.

As a general purpose search engine yeah it’s just as good. Google has some nice extra features which aren’t too important (for example if you search UFC it shows full fight card info and results on the search page).

Where it falls behind is for more "power user " type work. I only use Google at work as it makes finding very specific results with keywords and date ranges on certain sites etc much easier.

Nowadays I use Qwant though to boycott us. It’s much slower but still does the job for day to day use.

Better.

It has been for several years now. I rarely use Google now, and when I do, I’m using it out of DuckDuckGo (!g)

ive been using it consistently for the past few years. it works well for me, but sometimes ill go to other engines just to see what they come up with, or when results are lacking. sometimes they are better, sometimes they are worse.

meaning ddg is probably good enough nowadays, at least for me.