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[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They said as useful as Google. Not that Google gives objectively very useful results. And I agree with them. I use DuckDuckGo every day and pretty much every time I have to add !g to send my query to Google because the DDG results are shit in comparison.

I'm talking about on the desktop btw. With adblocking and script blocking. I accidentally used Google on my phone yesterday and I think I got cancer.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

What's the difference between using !g and going to Google directly?

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Same boat here. I set DDG as my default but still end up using !g around half the time.