[jjcon]

Does anyone have any tips for using ddg? I feel like maybe I’m just not conditioned to how it thinks cause I seem to have terrible luck with my search relevance. People here seem to love it and I would love to switch over from google but I just can’t get the knack.

[contravariant]

Just set it as the default and just add !g to the end of your search query if you don't find what you're looking for to try the same query on google. Eventually you'll figure out which queries work better on which search engine.

In my experience duckduckgo tends to behave more like how google used to work, so if you pick a few well chosen keyword you tend to find stuff pretty quickly but it doesn't respond too well to ambiguous terms or full sentences, google is better at those.

[julianaburchnFW]

The trick is to append !g to almost every search.

Sorry, but I have to agree with you. I don't understand how people treat ddg as a viable alternative to google, and I'm surprised by this community's enthusiasm for a search engine whose first result for 'hacker news' is thehackernews.com.

[SecurityLagoon]

The thing I think people usually forget is that because it doesn't track you it doesn't have a lot of the context that google infers. For example when you are searching for restaraunts you will probably need to add your city or town as a search term to get relevant results.

[pixxel]

Take a peek at https://duckduckgo.com/bang