i've sort of belatedly started using #duckduckgo instead of google for search, on desktop and mobile. i put it off for a long time (while simultaneously advocating it to others!) because i thought the search quality would be frustratingly low for my use case. because i'm a snowflake and have specialize search needs. obvs. ❄️
it's been a few days, and so far the experience has taught me that google's search quality is frustratingly low. i didn't realize how much time and brainpower i was spending checking results for the 'ad' tag, or scrolling past nonsense content farm trash on quora and similar. with ddg i've usually clicked on the first result on the page, my own incredulity notwithstanding.
it's also been liberating to search for things without worrying about how the act of searching will alter my experience of the rest of internet. i feel like the world is at my fingertips again!
anyway, if you've been procrastinating on duckduckgo like i was, give it a shot. you can always go back if it's terrible, but it might be awesome.
@ellotheth I agree, I've been using duckduckgo for years and not only is it Not Google but I came to prefer it.
The only reason I ever go back to Google (maybe once a month) is that Google still believes that when you put something in quotes, that really means "only this" and DDG merely takes it under advisement and shows you other crap anyway.
Though, when I've gotten that far into the weeds, I usually don't end up finding what I was looking for anyway.
@jwz @ellotheth for some sites like github, it seems that google has just given up on indexing them?
