Ask HN: Qwant or DuckDuckGo?

3 points by jesuisuncaillou 7y ago ↗ HN

I'm willing to stop using Google as my default search engine, and I would like to know what the HN community thinks about alternatives.

I'm currently hesitating between Qwant & DuckDuckGo, but feel free to advise another search engine if you like it better.

Thanks people ! :)

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kuratkull 7y ago ↗

DDG

jesuisuncaillou 7y ago ↗

Ok, but why ?

wingi 7y ago ↗

I switched 2 years ago to DDG and I am happy with the search results. Only 2 times I re-searched directly on google.

Reasons on switching was the common german privacy understanding to keep my search history private.

jesuisuncaillou 7y ago ↗

Thanks for the details :)

jags-v 7y ago ↗

Me too

intertextuality 7y ago ↗

DDG: Due to privacy concerns and bang functionality. !a <term> searches amazon, !yt for youtube, !w wikipedia, etc etc. If DDG's results are not satisfactory, you can easily type !g to do an encrypted google search. I see no real downside other than DDG being a bit slower than google sometimes.

jesuisuncaillou 7y ago ↗

Ok, but why ?

intertextuality 7y ago ↗

Updated. Overall I find the functionality nice and there's no real downside.

jesuisuncaillou 7y ago ↗

Thank you very much for explaining :)

[dead] BananaShoes 7y ago ↗

Startpage. https://new.startpage.com

DDG gets all the publicity but, truth is, their search results are pretty poor. SP is Google Search anonymised. It also looks better.

DDG's shebangs are great though. I wish SP would copy them.

guilhas 7y ago ↗

I am not sure which is best. But searx also looks interesting.

https://www.searx.me