Can DuckDuckGo Beat Google at Search? - Comments Page 2

First time I heard about this search engine it looks similar to Google and the search result look pretty good, but to be honest I prefer Google since it's the search engine of my choice and I've been using it for 5 years now.

I tried DDG looking for images of wedding cakes, Google beat it hands down but I will still try it again.
Probably better at some searches that others.

I'm using DuckDuckGo almost exclusively now. Thanks, Bob. What pulled me in was the privacy aspect, and the fact that there is no false and misleading padding of the number of results.

Long ago, I decided to test the actual number of Google results and compare it to the number touted on the first page of results. The number of actual results was far lower, something like 10-30% of the number of results claimed, if memory serves me correctly. If Google said there were 200 results, there might be 30-50.

Just tried DDG. It's very quick. I plan to use it instead of Google for a while to see how it performs.

With Google, I've grown tired of searching for what I need and have to go through many websites that don't chronicle to the subject. I know those unrelated sites pay to be on there. A tech told me this. But I see it for myself. Plus, I have to reword and reword what I ask for in Google's browser. And I am very conversant in English. I'm ready for a change! I'll try DDG. And if it doesn't work for me, I'll go to Yahoo or Bing. Thank you for your info.

I tried DuckDuckGo and I like it especially the no clutter aspect. HOWEVER one thing I do not like is it does not tell you how many pages of search results there are which would be very helpful to save time.

I worked in foreign country (Internet censored) and needed Tor. In one of versions the default search/home page was DDG. I don't use Tor for over a year now, but I still use DDG.
Unlike Google, it shows (by default) less selling sites (higher percentage of relevant info).
Of course, single user (me) can't make relevant reference, this is only my own experience.
"Will DDG beat Google" is irrelevant to me. I don't need to re-phrase my questions so many times on DDG.
But I thank Google for making me practice re-phrasing. I needed more experience because English is not my native language.

I basically got sick and tired of Google and decided to try all the other alternative operating systems. Found DDG to be the best by far. I have set it as my homepage on all computers and everywhere I go. It has given me 99% of what I wanted, and the last 1% DDG itself will show Google results anyway. I am VERY happy with it. It's David and Goliath battle between Google no doubt but it's time for a change for me anyway. Don't even care if they remain at 1% market share, I'm happy with it and that's all that matters.

I have been using DDG for about 18 months and am happy with it to the extent that I opened my Firefox and removed all the other choices. I hope they keep up the great work.Y/T ol'Dave

I have closed my crapbook err.. facebook account for two years ago because of privacy reasons and now Google is next. So I am looking to phase out Google everywhere where I can. I instantly falled in love with DDG and have now changed the default search engine settings to DDG in my Chrome browser. Also, I have stopped logging in to the Chrome browser itself. I do not need that Chrome syncing feature as much as Google probably needs my data. The next thing I will do do is to replace my Gmail account with someone more secure webmail. I have looked at Hushmail, but if you read their fine print about privacy and logging, their name is just a bad joke. So an article about different secure email services would be appreciated. I still want webmail because it's access flexibility, but without (Google's) email snooping and logging.
Thank you so much for this useful article :)

Over the last few years, I have slowly pulled out of most of my social media platforms, I feel liberated in a way as I don't have to tell the world everything I'm doing / thinking / planning. My life is becoming my own again.

Am already free of M$ and their NSA linked Spyware OS's, Win7 & Win8. Now I use Linux.

Now, like others who have commented, I set DDG as the default search engine on all computers I service.

I only use DuckDuckGo now. I like being anonymous. I don't have a cell phone service because I don't like carrying a geolocation device in my pocket all the time. My car does not have navigation hardware. I don't use social web sites to publish what is none of anyone else's business for the whole world to read. I use my local ISP email service. I don't blog. I am as under the radar as one can be and still use the Internet. That's just the way I want it.