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francis wrote:I have been using duckduckgo lately but I find that I do not get the search results I am looking for the way I would with google, which is really disappointing (harder to sort by specific sites, etc.)

I've been using DuckDuckGo for most searches for a couple of years. It's fine for basic stuff, but Google really is better for more complex or difficult searches.

shadrach wrote:

francis wrote:I have been using duckduckgo lately but I find that I do not get the search results I am looking for the way I would with google, which is really disappointing (harder to sort by specific sites, etc.)

I've been using DuckDuckGo for most searches for a couple of years. It's fine for basic stuff, but Google really is better for more complex or difficult searches.

(joining the discussion year(s) later...)

Can you share examples of searches that DuckDuckGo is not useful for?

I would challenge those opinions;
(1) because I have no difficulty finding what I want, and you can search by site (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+si ... fab&ia=web)

and (2) Google's results are actually not always unbiased results.
The engine uses what it knows about you, what you have searched for, and so forth, to determine what you can see in the results.
For example, imagine a leftist and a rightist searching for information about a political issue.
In an ideal world, we would expect them to both find the facts.

But the truth is, that if Google knows how they view they issue, it will give them the "facts" (aka lies) that they are looking for. So neither is likely to find the facts, and the results they see will not be identical. I don't think this is satire.

In spite of what I know about Google and what it knows about people, I do cave in now and then and use Google maps.
Because of the huge amount of information it collects, the map engine is the most accurate in finding the best route, etc. I don't know why my convictions aren't strong enough not to do that though.