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by aminozuur 1945 days ago
That could be so, I'm willing to give DDG another try. But I use google for stock information, flight updates, to calculate "what date is it 18 days after July 13", and many other weird questions that Google answers instantaneously.

Google's gotten so good with all that, that they've got me by the balls.
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abdullahkhalids 1945 days ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=what+date+is+it+18+days+aft...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%24GOOG+stock&ia=stock

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avaika 1945 days ago
DDG does a great job with instant answers. You can learn more about the sources at their docs [1]. PS. There are more features than just IA. You can check here [2].

[1]: https://duck.co/ia [2]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/i...

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croutonwagon 1945 days ago
For me. I just pipe it to DDg.

If, for any reason, I want google. I just append !g to the search.

For example I prefer google when searching restaurants or brick and mortar places with a phone number. dDDG piggy backs on Yelp which isn’t great sometimes and out of date. So I just revert to piping it to google.

Interestingly IT/devops/languange related searches have marketdly improved with DDg and I can get consistent results (ie using the same search string later). Google will often give me random garbage from places that are regularly unhelpful like Microsoft’s answers pages etc.

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