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BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way.

Ultimately what I'm getting at is: There's no market for DDG. Use Google for biased searches, and use other search engines that are not biased(which excludes DDG) for unbiased searches.

What are the use cases for DDG?



Few people switched to DDG because of censorship, the main DDG selling point is privacy. All of their marketing stresses that aspect.


"All"[0] in the revision of historical examples sense. Unless one really thinks that filter bubbles have no overlap with censorship.

Maybe i was only the few that cared more about the filter bubble angle and less the "we're selling bottled privacy™" angle [1] and am not interested now that `yegg` has clearly reneged upon the former

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/duckduckgo-to-google-bing-...

[1] https://pictobar.tumblr.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of...


Yeah DDG is just a worse google. If I want to use google I might as well use google.

When I want unbiased searches I've been using Kagi but more are popping up. they approach search differently so it's useful when google feels to "sanitized" for certain searches


> BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way.

It's not to me, when was the last time you used it? I haven't used Google in around 4 years now and I'm getting on just fine, majority of searches answered on first page.

If anything I now toggle between Duckduck and Ecosia as Ecosia still isn't 100% up to scratch (frequent 500 errors, slow, results are bad) but I like the idea of my searches planting trees.


Recently Google started ignoring double-quotes entirely which makes it pretty much useless for most of my daily search needs.


DDG respects privacy, or at least claims to. Google has nothing but contempt for it, and thrives on spying on you.


I use them as default search on my Android devices, to avoid the cookie banner of Google in private browsing mode.




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