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by callinyouin 2336 days ago
For me it was the straw that broke the camel's back. When this change went live I decided to switch to DDG and it's been a great experience. Search results are, in my opinion, more relevant and generally of better quality. I wish I would have switched sooner!
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I'm in the exact same boat.

To be honest, for a long time I'd role my eyes at the DDG users in every thread, talking about how it's hey, pretty good now.

Well, now I'm that guy, because I think it's actually better than Google now. It looks crisper, cleaner, has way fewer ads, and does less fuzzing of my actual search terms. I love it -- I'm hooked.

Me too! I get less junky websites in the results.
Same here. I wonder whether the backtracking is just due to the criticism or whether they have measured an actual impact on their numbers.
The entirety of DDG’s traffic right now is a rounding error on Google’s traffic. I promise you they did not measure any sort of impact. That may change in the future but we are not there yet.