• governorkeagan@lemdro.id
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    8 months ago

    To everyone complaining about DDG, what are you using? I’ve been using DDG for years now and it’s been fine for me. I have also been testing out StartPage.

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        8 months ago

        Doesn’t it just use Google / Bing under the hood? If those both suck then it wouldn’t improve much, right? Isn’t SearXNG more about privacy?

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          8 months ago

          Its more about the customizability. One searxng search can search through 100 search engines if you really wanted it to

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          8 months ago

          Almost all other search engines (ddg, kagi, etc) also use google / bing dataset to augment their search data.

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      8 months ago

      Every time I switch to DDG I’m constantly discovering things that I can’t find because they just don’t pop up in the results

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          8 months ago

          I assume they mean something like:

          Every time I switch to DDG, I tend to discover things that I can’t find on google because they just don’t pop up in googlee results

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          8 months ago

          I often just get 0 results on ddg, or I know that I should get a specific one and don’t (e.g. recently I tried to find the painting “in a Roman trattoria” by describing it).

          Google always had to come to the rescue

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      8 months ago

      Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?

      Because as a French speaker, when I tried DDG a few years ago, it was pretty hard to have some useful results. Like, I was looking for some local results and they were nowhere to be found.

      I know it got better, that it’s possible to tweak this, and that I should try it again. But because the first impression wasn’t good for me, it made me dubious about giving it another try.

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        8 months ago

        Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?

        That is correct. I’ve not experienced the issue you’re facing since I don’t often search DDG in my second language but I’ve heard of people having the issue you mentioned.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t complain about DDG (it’s been years since the last time I used it) but I’m using Qwant.