• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, DDG skips all the sponsored links but I generally find what I’m looking for faster on Google if I just skip half the page rather than trying to find the right incantation to bring up what I’m looking for on DDG.

    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I’ve tried, many times over the years, to use DDG and you are 100% spot-on. I find it damn-near impossible to find what I need without some deep voodoo magic to somehow craft the perfect query. It’s been a decade+ since I’ve gone to page 2 of a Google search. Using DDG I can be 3 or 4 pages deep before maybe finding the answer. There is SOOO much irrelevant stuff to filter through.

      It sucks, I don’t want to use Google, but there doesn’t seem to be a great alternative.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        just use a !g if you don’t get what you want the first time on ddg and you’ll still get a proxied google search result.