> Once you reach a certain size you can continue to squash competition through sheer momentum.
While this may be true, the main reason people use Google more than DDG is that it's a better search engine. It's not just about mindshare.
While this may be true, the main reason people use Google more than DDG is that it's a better search engine. It's not just about mindshare.
Once you are able to weed out all these content farms it is relatively easy to bring the right answer within the first 10/20 links, that is, on the first results page.
It is effectively hard if you want to do all that with instant results about current events, but for 99% of my searches, a 1 month old answer is perfectly fine. For the weather, I go anyway on a dedicated weather website.
Well that's easy - just relevant results, no ads being stuffed down my throat, no sponsored links, fake pages mimicking official ones, just relevant info. Easily 10x better for me.
You know, how google used to look like in the beginning.
edit: I'm getting downvoted, but it doesn't make it less true.
Without quoting, some terms (not stop words) get silently dropped (even Google tells you when they drop terms).
example: workbox wizard doesn't work
None of the results contain workbox anywhere.
And recently they started "optimizing" and correcting terms in quotes.
example: google "amp" modal
I quoted "amp" because otherwise it only searches for map. Yet most results are still for "map".
I really liked DDG, but they seem as intent as google in making their services worse for me, so I dropped them.
Actually, by now some do. Further down the list. Doesn't really make it better.
DDG provides all or most of those things, and they work well in IMHO.
DDG and Verbatim-mode Google searches are pretty equivalent, in my experience. Google seems better because it makes the assumption that what you "really" want is what everyone else wanted, which is annoying when it's actually getting it wrong.