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by BoppreH 5874 days ago
When I first heard about DDG it was because of it's privacy. I couldn't care less for that.

Now, saying that it is good for programming questions made me set it as the default search engine without even testing.

Zero-click info is amazing for quick doc checks, the auto-extending page is sweet and actually displaying the page link and favicon is a lot more informative.

Two things though:

- It's slow. Maybe because I'm in South America, or the server is not that good, but speed is essential for a search engine.

- Special characters are not always handled correctly. A* work perfectly, but the situation is inverted when it comes to "@". Google's results for @override (http://www.google.com/search?q=@override) are better than DDG's (http://duckduckgo.com/?q=@override).

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Thx. Servers are currently in the US; hence, the slowness for some people outside of the US. Eventually I hope to improve the infrastructure there.

Special character handling will be much better as I index programming documentation and Stack Overflow with the special characters.