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Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.

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In comp.misc nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote in
> news:q699ol$15f0$1@gioia.aioe.org: 
>> In comp.misc nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> wrote:
>>> If you do an exhaustive search there are MANY other search engines
>>> that do not track you that are FASTER than DUCK, better than DUCK.
>>> Duck sucks, slow as hell and does not give good results, no advanced
>>> searching, doesn't follow normal advanced syntax.
>> 
>> I attempted an exhaustive search a while ago when DDG search links
>> stopped working in my preferred web browser, Dillo. I found many
>> search engines with worse results than DDG, some that were much
>> slower and unreliable, but none besides Google that could provide
>> equivalently relevant results for my test search terms.
>> 
>> Of course maybe the good ones were all incompatible with Dillo as
>> well, in which case I wouldn't have looked at them long enough to
>> remember them. It looks like Bing might have worked, but M$ is no
>> better than Google in my opinion.
>> 
>> Thankfully DDG eventually got the URL parameter working, which was
>> always meant to disable the feature that made it incompatible with
>> Dillo, but had stopped working for some reason.
>> 
> 
> Sorry but you're wrong. Duck does not play well with TOR.

It was set as the default search engine in the TOR browser!

> And there's an extra step to divert you to their
> "non-javascript" engine.

Oh no, an extra step! Better just go and find another search engine
rather than simply adding "&kd=-1" to the search URL.

> Ok if you want 
> to use javascript, but there goes your privacy. Duck fails to load 
> frequently and when it does load it's slow.

Their server must like me a lot more than you then.

> YOu cannot use advanced syntax (at least none I have found) and it
> just returns wrong or incomplete results.

You don't say what you consider "advanced syntax", but:
https://duck.co/help/results/syntax

> At least with google you can use advanced syntax, but 
> that's not a big enough reason to use EVIL google. If you guys cannot 
> find the good engines out there, your not looking/testing very well.

I think I looked hard, and you're hardly going to convince me
otherwise while keeping your reported assortment of wonderful search
engine links to yourself.

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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. "(p)ing^~dvox:::::::::z" <dvox@hotbot.com> - 2019-02-15 04:21 +0000
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. whodunit <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-08 20:39 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-08 21:18 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 22:48 -0400
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-08 21:32 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-09 02:15 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-09 09:14 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-09 09:41 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-13 10:17 -0400
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2019-03-13 16:29 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-08 21:38 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-08 23:51 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-12 02:08 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-12 21:53 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-13 19:59 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-13 20:17 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-13 22:12 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-14 20:36 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-15 08:51 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-14 21:23 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. carson@aslas.com - 2019-03-09 02:32 -0600
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. NUNURBIZ <NUNURBIZ@YAHOO.COM> - 2019-04-19 02:00 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-19 10:53 +0000

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