[james33]

I've never really bought into DDG, especially for its lack of features. It still can't match Google, but this is certainly a step in the right direction and gives me pause to think about using it at least once in a while now. Glad to see progress in search outside of Google for a change.

[kermitdance]

This post made me finally create an account here. I do admit that personalized searches improve result quality a lot, at least for some topics. But after using DDG as my main search engine for about a year, > especially for its lack of features just sounds wrong. On the contrary, I tend to feel really helpless when using Google because of the lack of DDG bang syntax. For me, DDG is like my perfectly customized search engine with all the features I need - without actually customizing anything. This enables me to have the same, good search experience wherever I am (notebook, desktop PC, tablet, some else's machine...)

So to conclude this: Not relying on the search engine to guess your intention based on personalization takes some time to get used to, but for me it definitely payed off.

[weaksauce]

any good resources for learning how to effectively use DDG?

[pessimizer]

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

all of the boolean and ':' filters from google work also.

[m_mueller]

Why is kermitdance's reply to this post dead now?

[maxerickson]

Probably because they used a url shortener.