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by Dawny33 2339 days ago
As long as the search results don't need to be extremely localized, I found DDG much better and less obnoxious for a year.

Still can't get away from "Pizzerias around me" style queries on G + not expecting DDG to take these up anytime soon, as they are probably like 10% of my search queries per day anyways.
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dangson 2339 days ago
DDG gives you the option to have it detect your location or you can set your location manually. I just set mine to approximately my usual location and it gives pretty good location-based results. For example, “pizza near me” shows a map with a bunch of nearby pizzerias.
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archi42 2339 days ago
Similar for me: If I want to look up a doctors phone number or the location/opening hours of a shop I still fall back to Google.
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