Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I prefer using DDG or Firefox, however my device I lower end and I find that Brave works best on it.
But I use DDG for my search engine.
It’s better than google, and so it’s a good start.
Nah, you should avoid it unless you really want to search for a specific image -- search.brave.com respects your privacy and is not compromised.
Is DDG’s search results good, better, or about the same as Google or Bing?
AFAIK, most indexes ddg uses come from bing. So it's not really a search engine with its own indexes on its own. I'd suggest using SearX, and if one is willing to sacrifice a bit of privacy over some data and stats gathering, then SearxNG.
Yes, it's good, however you need to be more specific with your query for DDG to return good result.
If you're interested in other privacy respecting search engines, there's Searxng and Kagi (paid).
Is DDG’s search results good, better, or about the same as Google or Bing?
Is DDG’s search results good, better, or about the same as Google or Bing?
I use DDG every day as my default search engine across desktop & mobile. It’s good but the search isn’t as helpful as Google. If you need to you can just add !g to the search terms and get redirected to Google.
I'm not familiar with bangs (things like the !g you mentioned) but if you get redirected to Google doesn't that kill your privacy because you use Google instead of DDG? Or am I just misunderstanding the whole concept of bangs?