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I actually switched back to DuckDuckGo because I've found it's a better way to use Google than google.com

The cheat sheets and the bang commands are awesome. The no tracking by default is obviously a great benefit.

When the results are not as good, or I have a feeling Google will do it better, I just prefix with !g in the search bar and with no additional hassle I have myself a Google search.

My search engine life has never been this good.

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> I actually switched back to DuckDuckGo because I've found it's a better way to use Google than google.com

Exactly my stance. Especially after setting DDG as the default search engine it is possible to directly search for an address or a translation via the address bar by

- "!osm [address]"

- "!gm [address]"

- "!dictcc smorgasbord"

That is pretty neat.

Just out of curiosity: how often do you find yourself using !g and then actually finding a better answer?

I'm not autoreleasepool, but IME, I find myself using !g about 5% of the time (counting only general searches, not things where I would be using another bang expression). About half of those times, it ends up giving me a better answer.

It's usually that the results are different, not better necessarily. I've done the reverse too; where I start with !g and then used DDG because I was unhappy with the results

For me it's about 10% of searches, using !gde mostly when I need localized results. That's about it.

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