I don't know what has happened to Google, but it has become more and more difficult to use as an actual search engine. Google and SEO has somehow driven the discoverability of small time content and communities into a ditch. (E.g. the Pinterest plague polluting every image search result.)

I have no special praise for DDG in particular. I am just using it to break the habit. If you're using Chrome, it's a three click task to change your default search engine:

Settings | Search Engine | DuckDuckGo

I hope you guys find this useful.

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hollyhoppet wrote on July 29, 2020 at 3:15 AM

#9,560

one of us, one of us

neku wrote on July 29, 2020 at 4:12 AM

#9,561

good luck. im gonna become a Bing guy

voxpoplar wrote on July 29, 2020 at 12:12 PM

#9,562

DDG is cool it has built in shortcuts to other search engines. If you end your query with !w it will search wikipedia etc.

cat wrote on September 9, 2020 at 12:34 PM

#9,775

Replying to voxpoplar (#9,562)

yes yes yes yes a lot more convient than bookmarking things imo, i guess consumes more bandwidth but in this day and age it can take you directly to site or search term

things i use alot

!sr <subreddit name>
!yt <video search>
!tw
!d / !dic / !di, !t