[the-pigeon]

Great thing about using DDG is you can have both.

In my experience DDG is fine for general information but Google is better for very specific information.

But DDG supports !Bang. So you can do "!g" in your search bar for you specific query and it uses Google. Or "!w" to go directly to wikipedia or "!a" to search Amazon.

There's over 10,000 of them https://duckduckgo.com/bang so it's great for whatever sites you frequently look for information on.

And can even do things like complex math equations with "!wa" (Wolfram Alpha).

Point being, using DuckDuckGo as your default search engine doesn't mean you are limited to its' results. Personally I get the best of a lot of worlds by using it.

[HanaShiratori]

Yeah the problem about the bangs is that whenever I force myself to use DDG again I will end up using the !sp bang exclusively after around a week and decide to switch back to Google a while after that, because typing !sp after every search defeats the initial idea why I inteded to use DDG in the first place. Until I hate myself for using Google again and switch back. It's an endless cycle I cannot escape :/

[cyberbanjo]

so you at least try with no bang first and find ddg search results unsatisfactory? if you default to !sp maybe it would be better to use use startpage as a search engine, is it worse in some way than duckduckgo (excluding obvious diff of bangs)

[HanaShiratori]

Yes for some reason I have never considered using startpage as my default search engine and instead went straight back to google. Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try next time I'm at this stage of the cycle again .... :)

[warent]

Wow I had no idea about this! Actually going to make me switch back to DDG

[peakaboo]

They really should market this more, its one of the best features.

[weaksauce]

or use !sp and use google through a proxy