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May I ask what you use instead now? I've tried replacing Google search a few times but was never successful.

They mentioned DDG which is duckduckgo.com

Once nice thing about DDG is, if you really need to hit another search engine (I've noticed Google does a decent job when I'm searching for the resolution to a highly technical/specific issue), you just use the bangs, like !g for Google.

They have 13,099 bangs[0] at present.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang

And there are a lot of other tricks[0] based on Instant Answers[1].

0: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-search-tricks-work-duckduckg...

1: https://duck.co/ia

Solarized DuckDuckGo made me switch... here's a shareable link with the custom colors: https://start.duckduckgo.com/?kae=%23073642&kj=%23073642++&k...

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