I’m disappointed to hear Firefox is deteriorating daily.
I disagree about DDG’s search quality. I tried it for six months and that was not my experience. Eventually went back to Google.
I disagree about DDG’s search quality. I tried it for six months and that was not my experience. Eventually went back to Google.
This reminds me of the dream of displacing Microsoft Word. Can we make a better product? No we can't. Only Microsoft can, through upgrades. The competition is stuck with making the same thing, and therefore not better, or something different, which is always "worse" because people are used to Word.
Also note that DuckDuckGo has a fundamental disadvantage: by not tailoring its searches to your history, it cannot possibly guess what you want to see as well as Google. Sure you're not trapped in your own search bubble, but you don't feel that. You only feel that the damn search engine can't find that website you are searching for for the fifth time already.
Pro tip: to get back to a web site, type its URL, or use bookmarks. Somehow I've seen many professional programmers fail to do that. I give them a URL, and they type it on the freaking search bar. (The more modern version is failing to type or auto-complete an actual URL in the omni bar.)
What do you use a search engine for? Depending on your set of interests, turning off or on localization might have helped.