Just started getting this now. Hopefully it’s some A/B testing that they’ll stop doing, but I’m not holding my breath

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      Sometimes, yeah. My default is DDG, and I also use Kagi, but Google is still good at some stuff. Guess I’ll take the hit and just stop using it completely though. Kagi has been good enough, and also lets me search the fediverse for finding that dank meme I saw last week. Google used to be able to do that, but can’t shove as many ads in those queries I assume, so they dropped that ability.

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        Use the bangs in DDG, eg !g asks DDG to search google

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          I use ddg. But that just uses Microsoft’s bing on the backend right?

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            Unless you use the bangs. !g tells it to use google

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      I don’t think I used Google in the last 5-6 years. It’s duck duck go all the way.