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[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (19 children)

I've tried, many times over the years, to use DDG and you are 100% spot-on. I find it damn-near impossible to find what I need without some deep voodoo magic to somehow craft the perfect query. It's been a decade+ since I've gone to page 2 of a Google search. Using DDG I can be 3 or 4 pages deep before maybe finding the answer. There is SOOO much irrelevant stuff to filter through.

It sucks, I don't want to use Google, but there doesn't seem to be a great alternative.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

just use a !g if you don't get what you want the first time on ddg and you'll still get a proxied google search result.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AFAIK !g on DDG doesn't proxy anything.

[–] ratcliff@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

It does on SearXNG

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