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Is Google's Search quality that much better than Duck Duck Go or Bing? I get about the same quality of content when using any one of the three.

All three are terrible at serving me up websites to buy crap when I typically want to learn about something. I would love a filter that says "Don't try to sell me anything"!

I believe Google's biggest advantage is in their marketing & that the word "Google" now is a synonym for search.

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I don't know the answer to this - you could be right, but just outright questioning that Google's search quality is no better than DDG or Bing and basing it off of a single data point is pretty foolhardy. Your second statement reinforces this point - I've run a lot of Google ads, and they're quite effective. Google ads are very effective at selling things to people.

In the future, when coming up with an opinion about something, I'd encourage you to look at statistics and combine that with your own personal experience. You'll often learn something you didn't know, and come up with a more grounded opinion.

I was looking for personal opinions to gather data from, hence the question. I was not trying to cite stats & persuade with anything more than my personal experience. It would have been very easy to link to articles such as this Yale study - https://www.networkworld.com/article/2225489/research-buries... if I wanted to do that. FYI, this argues the 2 are fairly close.

Also asking for personal opinions will give me much different results than looking up a blind test research as brand loyalty will play a big part in ones like Duck Duck Go.

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