In my experience Google is a bit better than DDG. I tried it out a few years ago and often found myself going back to Google for certain searches. Been using DDG again for a few weeks and having a somewhat similar experience.
Google is the standard. I’d argue that more than 50% of the population doesn’t know what a browser or a search engine is. They put their question into whatever textbox they find in chrome and Google gives them their answers.
There are no better alternatives for the general userbase. Other search engines are better for your privacy and may give better results if you know how to use extended search parameters, but very few people even care about all that. Google is the search engine that will give you the best result if you just type in your question.
Many don’t know about DuckDuckGo and even more don’t care.
I should say that DuckDuckGo is generally much more strongly censored and controlled than Google.
This won’t affect people in say, the US.
But in many places around the world (like my country of South Korea), using DuckDuckGo is not realistic as a daily driver without using a VPN or making heavy use of the “!g” bang to fall back to Google (which doesn’t blanket censor words).
Overall it makes it less accessible.
And I know, part of the reason people use DuckDuckGo in the first place is to avoid region-aware results.
But that does not change their censorship policies.
I am legitimately trying to figure out why it is people still use Google for anything when we know there are tons of better alternatives out there.
Do people just not know about the alternatives? Do they not know about DuckDuckGo?
In my experience Google is a bit better than DDG. I tried it out a few years ago and often found myself going back to Google for certain searches. Been using DDG again for a few weeks and having a somewhat similar experience.
Yeah, I use DDG for moral reasons, and it’s definitely a compromise. I think I’ll try Kagi, one of these days.
Google is the standard. I’d argue that more than 50% of the population doesn’t know what a browser or a search engine is. They put their question into whatever textbox they find in chrome and Google gives them their answers.
There are no better alternatives for the general userbase. Other search engines are better for your privacy and may give better results if you know how to use extended search parameters, but very few people even care about all that. Google is the search engine that will give you the best result if you just type in your question.
They need to make that stuff required education for all people.
Many don’t know about DuckDuckGo and even more don’t care.
I should say that DuckDuckGo is generally much more strongly censored and controlled than Google. This won’t affect people in say, the US. But in many places around the world (like my country of South Korea), using DuckDuckGo is not realistic as a daily driver without using a VPN or making heavy use of the “!g” bang to fall back to Google (which doesn’t blanket censor words). Overall it makes it less accessible.
And I know, part of the reason people use DuckDuckGo in the first place is to avoid region-aware results. But that does not change their censorship policies.