I moved away from Chrome and Google about 6 months ago.
There are two places where I find DDG to be better:
- when I know specifically what page/site I am looking for, but don't know the address
- when I am looking for results that are heavily monetized (like, say, which pedal steel guitar amp might be suited to my project)
I still find myself using g!, especially when the first couple of results for, say, a cryptic log message or esoteric programming term aren't giving me what I want.
If I know it's a hard to search term, or a specific image result, I will just default to g!
But even if, say, 60% of the time I'm using g!, I still feel better because I feel like DDG is a less "creepy" system and using it as a default at least leaves some amount of a hole in one company's records of my activities. (admittedly, that's a goofy and questionable reason).
There are two places where I find DDG to be better:
- when I know specifically what page/site I am looking for, but don't know the address
- when I am looking for results that are heavily monetized (like, say, which pedal steel guitar amp might be suited to my project)
I still find myself using g!, especially when the first couple of results for, say, a cryptic log message or esoteric programming term aren't giving me what I want.
If I know it's a hard to search term, or a specific image result, I will just default to g!
But even if, say, 60% of the time I'm using g!, I still feel better because I feel like DDG is a less "creepy" system and using it as a default at least leaves some amount of a hole in one company's records of my activities. (admittedly, that's a goofy and questionable reason).