[kritr]

Having switched to both Bing and DuckDuckGo as defaults and then developing the subtle habit of searching via Google.com rather than my browser’s search bar, I think I’d have to disagree.

For whatever new niche of programming concepts I’m looking into, google generally outperforms Bing at finding relevant pages.

[andsens]

Get your employer to pay for Kagi. It has honestly saved me several days in search time over the last 1,5 years.

The most prominent feature for me is that it only shows 0 or maybe 2 search results when there really isn’t more to find. It’s freeing, honestly.

I used to verify it with a Google search like you, only to be confirmed every time. I haven’t been doing that for a while now :-)

[mdhen]

Yeah i just switched to kagi a couple weeks ago and ita great, much less seo stuff and very useful results at the top. The only thing i'll still use google for is shopping searches, since kagi doesnt have that explicit functionality.

[fatfingerd]

I tended to get this impression with DDG because I use !g or !b only when I am dissatisfied with a ddg result, but !g seems worse than !b despite the expected overlap between ddg and Bing. Of course if you get adequately niche then Google should find something and not have spam, but I think they turned results off for anything sophisticated enough to return few results.