First, I commend you for taking this major step to protecting your privacy. News like this makes you wonder why Google is aggressively chasing personal data.
I've been using DDG for the past 2 years as my default search engine.
My experience with it so far has been nothing short of great. In the duration I have been using DDG as my primary search engine, I have needed to search on Google only 2 times. This is a testament to how great DDG is as a search engine.
Lastly, DDG supports shortcuts, called bangs, for searching other search engines. Example:
First, I commend you for taking this major step to protecting your privacy. News like this makes you wonder why Google is aggressively chasing personal data.
I've been using DDG for the past 2 years as my default search engine.
My experience with it so far has been nothing short of great. In the duration I have been using DDG as my primary search engine, I have needed to search on Google only 2 times. This is a testament to how great DDG is as a search engine.
Lastly, DDG supports shortcuts, called bangs, for searching other search engines. Example:
!g test
will search Google fortest
!gh test
will search GitHub fortest
!a test
will search Amazon fortest
More details here: duckduckgo.com/bang
I love the bangs! There's so many as well so I often try to guess new bangs, like
!laravel
or 1 of my most common!mdn
Genuine question : How is using
!g test
to search Googletest
(from DDG) different from directly using Google ?It's not different.
It's just a matter of convenience that you are able to search on other platforms (if you need it) without having to first navigate to other platforms.