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by JD557 5041 days ago
One of the main reasons I changed to DDG was because I was having some problems with google:

- Some times the instant search simply doesn't work until I press enter (and sometimes, even when I do, the results just don't appear) - I noticed that google doesn't take you directly to the page. It takes you first to an intermediate page (probably for tracking purposes) and then redirects you to your result. I would be fine with that, but sometimes my browser just got stuck in the intermediate page (no idea why).

I sometimes need to use !g too and I agree that google sometimes is faster than DDG (at least when it works). What I really miss from google is the autocomplete

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Agreed. Autocomplete would be awesome. I think it's pretty much expected from any search engine nowadays. I like how Chrome and iCab will sometimes use google's autocomplete even if I'm doing a DDG search, but I wish it was also available straight from the site's search field.