<story><title>DuckDuckGo is growing fast</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-is-growing-fast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sunaurus</author><text>I love the idea of DDG, but after using it for about a year, I realized that I&amp;#x27;m redoing most of my searches with !g. DDG seems to be quite bad at searches that are in my native language and somehow also often doesn&amp;#x27;t find good results for programming related queries.&lt;p&gt;I ended up switching back to Google. It was painful from a privacy standpoint, but what good is privacy if I don&amp;#x27;t get useful search results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmehdy</author><text>I have the opposite: I&amp;#x27;m in Canada and from France, but if I search for anything in French on ANY google (.com&amp;#x2F;.ca&amp;#x2F;.fr) I get Quebec stuff, whereas if I put the &amp;quot;France&amp;quot; filter on DDG I do get actual results for France. It has become one of the most convenient things for me when trying to find some news in each country (similarly, selecting &amp;quot;Canada&amp;quot; when searching in English or French for Canada or Quebec).</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo is growing fast</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-is-growing-fast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sunaurus</author><text>I love the idea of DDG, but after using it for about a year, I realized that I&amp;#x27;m redoing most of my searches with !g. DDG seems to be quite bad at searches that are in my native language and somehow also often doesn&amp;#x27;t find good results for programming related queries.&lt;p&gt;I ended up switching back to Google. It was painful from a privacy standpoint, but what good is privacy if I don&amp;#x27;t get useful search results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>Was this recent? I had the same experience but recently tried again and found that DDG was now about as good as Google. When I do try !g because DDG failed to find something then usually Google doesn&amp;#x27;t find it either.&lt;p&gt;Sadly I think that the way that DDG caught up was that Google got &lt;i&gt;worse&lt;/i&gt; because of SEO spam, while only DDG got a little better.</text></comment>