<story><title>Let&apos;s start using DuckDuckGo more often</title><text>I&amp;#x27;d made a similarly titled post[1] a couple years back and I seriously don&amp;#x27;t know what kind of usage DuckDuckGo has right now. But I&amp;#x27;d like to think that it is extensively used, at least in the developer community. And I strongly believe that people should start degoogling their lives at least slowly and gradually if its not possible to do it at once. If more people start using DDG, the search engine will improve and that least that one aspect of degoogling could be achieved to a certain extent.&lt;p&gt;[1] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13284917</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jplayer01</author><text>DDG&amp;#x27;s search results seem consistently terrible whenever I try to use it for an extended period of time. It&amp;#x27;s fine for really basic searches, but anything more specialized or niche is terrible (considering my interests, that&amp;#x27;s all of my searches). I mostly use Startpage nowadays instead, which seems to give me good enough results most of the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>These sorts of posts make me feel a bit stupid - I use search engines other than DDG less than once a week. Are my searches so banal and obvious? Do I not encounter tricky technical problems?&lt;p&gt;However, in the rare cases that I do switch to Startpage (!s), I get &amp;quot;better&amp;quot; results only sometimes. Conversely, on Google I miss the bangs, the capability to scroll through the results using up&amp;#x2F;down cursor key (and enter to go to a result), the simple way to specify country specific results (I don&amp;#x27;t care about Moscow, Idaho and its 23000 inhabitants very much, sorry).</text></comment>
<story><title>Let&apos;s start using DuckDuckGo more often</title><text>I&amp;#x27;d made a similarly titled post[1] a couple years back and I seriously don&amp;#x27;t know what kind of usage DuckDuckGo has right now. But I&amp;#x27;d like to think that it is extensively used, at least in the developer community. And I strongly believe that people should start degoogling their lives at least slowly and gradually if its not possible to do it at once. If more people start using DDG, the search engine will improve and that least that one aspect of degoogling could be achieved to a certain extent.&lt;p&gt;[1] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13284917</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jplayer01</author><text>DDG&amp;#x27;s search results seem consistently terrible whenever I try to use it for an extended period of time. It&amp;#x27;s fine for really basic searches, but anything more specialized or niche is terrible (considering my interests, that&amp;#x27;s all of my searches). I mostly use Startpage nowadays instead, which seems to give me good enough results most of the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdev</author><text>DDG uses a combination of Bing, Yahoo and Yandex results. From what I can tell they don&amp;#x27;t index SPA sites very well:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;90ypqz&amp;#x2F;ddg_crawler_and_single_page_applications_spa&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;90ypqz&amp;#x2F;ddg_craw...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A comment from July 2018:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We get our results from various sources, mostly Bing, Yahoo and Yandex (more info: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duck.co&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;results&amp;#x2F;sources&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duck.co&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;results&amp;#x2F;sources&lt;/a&gt; ) so if&amp;#x2F;when they introduce support for SPAs, we should get that too. I don&amp;#x27;t know what their plans are for this, however.</text></comment>