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		save_ferris on March 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lesser-Known Search Engines That Are Worth Checkin... I'd counter that with the fact that DDG returns SO answer cards and various cheatsheets when searched (i.e. "tmux cheatsheet".) I think Google beats DDG in some ways (better news search results, for example.) But DDG is a much better programmer-focused search engine IMO, they just don't market themselves that way. Back to your bang feature point, I really appreciate that DDG makes it easy to search Google instead by simply using !g. Tech companies don't always make it easy to use a competitor, and there's something to be said for DDG not creating barriers to using other search engines.

dontbenebby on March 10, 2019 [–]

>Back to your bang feature point, I really appreciate that DDG makes it easy to search Google instead by simply using !g.

Or you can use !s to use StartPage, which uses Google's results to seed it's own and is more privacy respecting

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