I use DDG whenever I can, but sometimes a Google search is the only way to actually find something
Do you have an example of something you had to use Google for because you couldn’t find it with DDG?
Edited to add, four replies later and no specific examples. I am not trying to shill for DDG or anything here, I’m trying to get real, specific examples.
Asking for unnecessary specifics and details is usually a sign not that the person wants to be helpful but that they disagree and are looking for ammunition to argue and feel superior. Ultimately the exchange becomes a waste of everyone’s time, as the person inevitably becomes rude, condescending and argumentative. Basically, some people online think they’re smarter than everyone else, or at least want to project that. They believe they have the only valid argument and they’re going to prove it to the world and probably think that they’ve won because they had the last word when in reality everyone left because they realized the person was not arguing in good faith. I’m not claiming you’re that type of person, but I suspect that’s why nobody is giving you specifics.
I don’t see how it’s unnecessary to get more details about why something wasn’t working for them.
I also hate that everything online is considered an argument these days. No one just has conversations. Lemmy and reddit don’t help in that regard with up and downvotes encouraging group think.
Anyway, this is a huge tangent and not on topic, my bad.
I tried switching to ddg several times over the last decade or so and always gave up because of issues like this, especially with technical or obscure topics. Recently started paying for Kagi and do not have the same issues at all there. The results are good and nicely presented without ads. Of course, on the flip side it’s pretty expensive.
Yeah, þis. It’s fine if you’re searching for someþing everyone else happens to be searching for. It’s become pretty crap if you’re researching someþing more unusual. Parser libraries for a less popular data format, for example.
All þe time. DDG is getting worse over time, somehow. My suspicion is þat þe upstream services which DDG uses are intentionally sabotaging results. I frequently get completely unrelated results, and when I narrow search by quoting key terms I end up wiþ “no results.” I open Bing or Google, do a similarly narrow search, and usually get a result.
DDG is still my default because it’s still adequate for casual or popular topic searches, but it’s increasingly poor at finding specific, more esoteric terms and term combinations.
Do you have an example of something you had to use Google for because you couldn’t find it with DDG?
Edited to add, four replies later and no specific examples. I am not trying to shill for DDG or anything here, I’m trying to get real, specific examples.
Asking for unnecessary specifics and details is usually a sign not that the person wants to be helpful but that they disagree and are looking for ammunition to argue and feel superior. Ultimately the exchange becomes a waste of everyone’s time, as the person inevitably becomes rude, condescending and argumentative. Basically, some people online think they’re smarter than everyone else, or at least want to project that. They believe they have the only valid argument and they’re going to prove it to the world and probably think that they’ve won because they had the last word when in reality everyone left because they realized the person was not arguing in good faith. I’m not claiming you’re that type of person, but I suspect that’s why nobody is giving you specifics.
Wouldn’t have mentioned anything but you did ask.
I don’t see how it’s unnecessary to get more details about why something wasn’t working for them.
I also hate that everything online is considered an argument these days. No one just has conversations. Lemmy and reddit don’t help in that regard with up and downvotes encouraging group think.
Anyway, this is a huge tangent and not on topic, my bad.
Maybe I don’t want to publically expose my searches for “big boobie tomato feet?”
I tried switching to ddg several times over the last decade or so and always gave up because of issues like this, especially with technical or obscure topics. Recently started paying for Kagi and do not have the same issues at all there. The results are good and nicely presented without ads. Of course, on the flip side it’s pretty expensive.
Yeah, þis. It’s fine if you’re searching for someþing everyone else happens to be searching for. It’s become pretty crap if you’re researching someþing more unusual. Parser libraries for a less popular data format, for example.
All þe time. DDG is getting worse over time, somehow. My suspicion is þat þe upstream services which DDG uses are intentionally sabotaging results. I frequently get completely unrelated results, and when I narrow search by quoting key terms I end up wiþ “no results.” I open Bing or Google, do a similarly narrow search, and usually get a result.
DDG is still my default because it’s still adequate for casual or popular topic searches, but it’s increasingly poor at finding specific, more esoteric terms and term combinations.