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[–] cadellin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I use DDG every day as my default search engine across desktop & mobile. It’s good but the search isn’t as always as helpful as Google. If you need to you can just add !g to the search terms and get redirected to Google.

[–] Philo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's wrong with startpage.com?

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[–] palebluedot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, it's good, however you need to be more specific with your query for DDG to return good result.

If you're interested in other privacy respecting search engines, there's Searxng and Kagi (paid).

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] felixculpa@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah. I consider myself privacy paranoid and have been using DuckDuckGo for 5 years without any problems so far. It is pretty strict about its privacy policy.

[–] _jamie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It’s better than google, and so it’s a good start.

[–] Sizably8826@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There will always be some compromises and depends on your thread model. While DDG is not perfect, I still use it daily as it's not GOOGLE. I also try other search engine as well like Brave.

[–] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

NO.

  1. it is US-based
  2. the CEO is the former founder of the “Names Database”

for the love of god, use anything but DDG. Qwant is EU-based and has decent results, SearX is another one which lets you choose between instances (or host your own).

please stop taking US “privacy” services seriously. i was hoping people would know better on here, compared to reddit

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