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I used to use DDG as my primary search engine before, but after a while I found that clicking on the search results takes a long time before the page opens. It didn't happen with Google. Never understood why that was.

Just tried again today, and it seems alright now. I'll switch back and see.

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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed the lag was because DDG doesn't let result pages know what search terms you used to find them, and was sending you through some generic middle page to hide that info?

I think you're right about speed, though. DDG just keeps getting better.

Did you know if the mouse is hovering over a DDG result, you can press o to to open it? And I think there's a way to navigate through results using only keys... I forgot how though...

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