searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.
The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.
Unfortunately there is no other free alternative that is as effective.
I don’t know how you view google as “effective”, but ddg is very good
I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg
DDG is shit.
Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.
I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?
Effective search results.
Two recent examples:
The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.
google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing
I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results
Exactly. I don’t think I’ve used Google in probably a year and a half.
Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?
There are a bunch of free search engines available.