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brewery@feddit.uk 8 months agoWhat difficulties are you finding with it and are you switching from Google? The results are as custom as Google given they haven’t scraped your life history so wondering if that’s it? I’ve been using DDG without any issues. About once every 6 months I struggle to find something so try the Google bang but have never found better results. In fact, I was shocked last time how crap the Google results were, just full of AI generated crap and SEO based crap.
To be honest, DDG is also struggling with that now as it’s based on Bing. I have been trying a public searxg but not found it very good so far.
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
mojo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hell no. Paying for something that’s the same as ddg. That’s a terrible idea, and the results aren’t any better, despite how much their marketing claims it to be and that smaller blogs show up more.
bort@feddit.de 8 months ago
I guess you get what you pay for then lol
mojo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
In this case you actually get more for free. Not to mention the paid service is a privacy nightmare since all of the searched are done through a logged in user. Which also means it’s incompatible with private browsing. But their marketing says “trust me bro”, while they’re selling you an overrated product. DDG even simply through a VPN is a million times more private then any logged in service. You need to assume if something is trackable, it will be tracked. Don’t follow marketing blindly.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love DDG and use it as my default, but there’s no doubt that its index is shallower and its semantic matching can’t compare to Google’s. I’m a biogeochemist and spend a lot of time coding in R. Google is just better at surfacing rare science articles/blogs and stackoverflow pages where my query doesn’t match exactly, but it is a relevant result. I use DDG for my personal searching and Google for professional searching
someguy3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Results suck, can’t find anything. Really don’t think it’s related to my browsing history.
progettarsi@feddit.it 8 months ago
what do you search? i always find everything at first time
clegko@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not the same person, but DDG results just seem a little bit shittier than Google’s results. It’s nothing I can specifically put my finger on, outside of “I’m having more issues finding an answer for my query”.
I also hate the basic layout of the page, but that’s not a DDG problem as such, just a personal opinion.
Polar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I use DDG exclusively now, but I will say, despite the downvotes from these annoying ass FOSS users, DDG is worse.
If I am having some very specific issue with my computer, I will be page 5 on DDG without an answer, but Google will have one page 1.
Also Google Images is light years ahead DDG.
It took a long time to adjust to DDG, but now I am fine with it.
3v1n0@feddit.it 8 months ago
Just use ddg syntax operators and stuff will improve