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Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

DDG has gone downhill in recent years.

I haven't noticed this at all.

I've been a frequent DDG g! bang user over the years, but now almost never have to go it. Granted I use kagi for most searches now, but my phone still defaults to DDG, and I've noticed that it works just fine.

Google and therefore kagi are still better for stackoverflow indexing I believe, at least that's how I remember it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is DDG g! Bang?

Yeah it is really odd I can't understand why it does it because the initial reason I moved to DDG was because of their big marketing push on not putting results or users into bubbles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Bangs is a cool DDG feature that redirects your query to another search engine in this case !g is Google

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kagi also does this, not that I've ever needed it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I have just added all the other engines I use in browser itself. Kind of even forgot about bangs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it filter out the shite?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no modification, it just redirects you to the site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it prevent Google from getting your info or something so or what is the benefit in this over using Google?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no modification, it's just a handy shortcut, read about bangs here. You are not expected to use !g for all searches, only for those that you wish to search with Google. It's also possible to replicate this with browser search settings, DDG just has this built-in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh that does sound very handy actually, sometimes their results can be useful