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Tell HN: my first DDG result that is better than Google.

1 pointsby resdirectorover 14 years ago
The DDG search:<p>http://duckduckgo.com/?q=maz+narooma<p>The Google search:<p>http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&#38;safe=off&#38;q=maz+narooma&#38;aq=f&#38;aqi=&#38;aql=&#38;oq=<p>I was after Maz's cafe in Tilba (although I didn't know that was the name of her cafe). I've become more and more annoyed at Google the last half a year or so. Quite often I have to molest my search such that Google gives the desired result.<p>I think this should be DDG's aim: to be better than Google. I don't care about tracking, privacy etc. If &#62;50% of my search queries are better answered by DDG, I'm switching.<p>(But a question to Google: under what earthly circumstances would <i>anyone</i> want the weather returned when typing in a person's name followed by the city you think they live in?)

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resdirectorover 14 years ago
Clickable:<p>Google: <a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&#38;safe=off&#38;q=maz+narooma&#38;aq=f&#38;aqi=&#38;aql=&#38;oq=" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&#38;safe=off&#38;q=maz...</a><p>DDG: <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?q=maz+narooma" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/?q=maz+narooma</a>