When I used DDG, the !g bang to search on Google became wired in my brain to “get me better results, please”, so much that I sometimes tried using it in Google search too.
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CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days agoI use DDG, which works for about 90% of my searches, but when it doesn’t work, I go back to Google, often in a private window. I do agree that Google is still just, I dunno, better?
Damage@feddit.it 2 days ago
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Idk what I’m doing wrong, but any time I can’t find something in DDG and turn to Google, I get exact same results.
Exceptions are:
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localized search (obviously), however I don’t use that in Google either and just do ‘searchterm cityname’ or use the local map service instead.
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searching on Reddit: Google has an agreement with Reddit for vacuuming all new content immediately.
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looking for a meme image by its description or caption. This definitely works in Google and pretty much doesn’t in Bing/DDG.
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Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Just use the !s bang in your ddg search. It forwards your search to startpage, a google proxy. Same results but more protection.