| I've tried using DDG for years, on and off, and it's been a terrible experience. Local searches simply don't work. My favorite example is searching for "restaurante" and getting Spanish results, even though I'm from Romania. By comparison, Google understands what I want and delivers a list of "restaurants near me", alongside websites in Romanian. But it doesn't stop at local searches. Programming-related searches are terrible too. I have to second-guess DDG on every search. The Google search doesn't always yield better results, but it does so enough that it's making me not trust DDG. Honestly, even the ads on Google are better than DDG's search results. As far as alternative search engines go, Brave Search delivers better results for my search patterns. They are still terrible at local searches, but I'm not noticing the DDG-like blunders. When Brave Search isn't delivering, it's probably due to the size of their index, but at least it's their own index. "Works for me" doesn't cut it. First, because nobody cares. You all should spend more time with the normies to see how they are using tech. They don't refine the search phrase to make it more specific (even though that doesn't help much with DDG either). It's also worth considering that DDG is basically just a Bing shell, so I wouldn't consider it competition. If it doesn't have its own crawler, index and ranking algorithm, it's not competing with Google. |