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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (25 children)

It also does that with other unrecognised user agents.

Personally I don't understand why someone would still use Google when duckduckgo has more features and is just as good for searching and in the very rare case it isn't you can easily switch back temporarily by just adding the prefix "!g" to your query.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (17 children)

I tried duckduckgo for a while and kept coming back to Google for "real" searches at work. It's not as good for searching in my experience. Yet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The vast majority of times I go back to Google to do a search I find it also returns useless results. I'm not convinced it's any better than duckduckgo. I think it used to be, but not anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I think it depends on wether google is eating the cookies or not

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