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Any suggestions from people who have switched from Google to another search engine?

I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, but I gave up after a few days. DuckDuckGo's results were very good for popular/mainstream terms, but Google is much better at deep "needle in haystack" searches.

I later switched from Google to Bing, but I gave up after one day. Bing's results were very random and stale. And Bing is ugly. :)



You could always just use DDG by default, and then resort to Google only when you really need it. That's what I've been doing for 1 - 2 years now.


I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, but I gave up after a few days. DuckDuckGo's results were very good for popular/mainstream terms, but Google is much better at deep "needle in haystack" searches.

When was this? It's gotten a lot better for me.


Give Yandex a try. The results would be stale too but at least it looks nice.




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