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ssorallen | 5 years ago

I have tried multiple times to use DuckDuckGo over the years but used !g so often for programming queries that I questioned why I was forcing myself to use a plainly underperforming (for my use case) product. In other David vs. Goliath stories like Firefox vs. Chrome the competing product had verifiable advantages for me. For DDG the only edge is an unverifiable claim that the company doesn’t track me? Other than that I am resolving myself to a product that performs less well for my use case.

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nottorp|5 years ago

> used !g so often for programming queries

Funny, I find google useless for programming queries lately.

Although, if you go past the beginner questions, all searches become useless. You want something exotic and android specific? Good luck wading through 3000 pages explaining you how to use Android. Even though you specified 'programmatically' or 'in code'. And 90% of the rest are SEO "tutorial" pages that don't answer your question either.

bussierem|5 years ago

A million times this.

I recently had the misfortune of trying to learn Android app development and oh my GOD I can't describe how SEO-ridden it is. Basically any search that Google can surmise as being related to Android development (no matter if I'm searching for the fix for some error message, etc), I get almost a full page of results that are SEO'd "Android App Dev Tutorial For Beginners" that are all basically:

- 25 minute read of "how to install Android Studio"

- "Okay now that you have that, you can go off and start writing Android apps! Have fun!

dhimes|5 years ago

Yeah; what the hell happened? Not just programming, but other technical things too. It's like everybody is gaming search so hard that search is going back to the days of AltaVista and Lycos.

maxekman|5 years ago

It can also be that employees are willing to have a lower salary because they are feeling they contribute to something meaningful.

unknown|5 years ago

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rv-de|5 years ago

When using DDG I also tend to fall back on !g but in my idealistic fantasy I imagine this to be okay because I provide DDG with search terms they can use to optimize their engine.

dtrailin|5 years ago

Would be interested in what that salary range is. I assume a larger part of their comp is RSU and options.