Switching from Google to Duck Duck Go

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by vital101 • 15 years ago

8 6 15 years ago

I switched to DDG about 3 months ago. If nothing else, the bang syntax is a huge win for me. Among my favs are !cpan !jquery !js !perldoc !php. Makes looking stuff up nice and quick.

jjclarkson• 15 years ago

Above all I think the greatest thing about DDG is the direct forwarding to UPS when I submit a UPS tracking number. No clicking. No need to enter the number again. It just goes straight where I need to be. I use this 50 times a day and it's wonderful, and it probably doesn't benefit DDG at all but it's great for me.

beoba2• 15 years ago

I just use Yippy, since over 70% of websights should never be visited by anyone.

http://bitcast-a.v1.o1.sjc1.bitgravity.com/seehomenow/yippy-...

A fun pasttime is testing their awful filtering. It seems like they just have a list of blocked words. You can sometimes get the "clouds" box on the left to come up with some racy results. For example, "big booty" returns a link for "Round Asses".

http://search.yippy.com/censorship

runjake2• 15 years ago

Yippy should change their search page to be lighter.

I browse through Tor during the day. I realize I'm an extreme use case, but the header image loaded painfully slow. I imagine it's the same for people with slower Internet connections, too.

beoba2• 15 years ago

I think they just have an extremely slow server.

runjake2• 15 years ago

I was a Google die hard, but just took the DDG plunge. It seems to be returning much better results, at least for my work areas of Cisco, crypto, and programming.

It takes 2 seconds to set it up as default in Google Chrome. Thanks for not forcing me to fight my browser, when I don't want to use your search , Google.

Switching from Google to Duck Duck Go

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