Former Google engineer: DuckDuckGo is good enough for daily use

Former Google engineer, Jake Voytko compared Google and DuckDuckGo search results and thought that DuckDuckGo was good enough for daily use.

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that emphasizes privacy. It does not customize search results for users and does not track users. Jake Voytko wrote:

“Most of my searches relate to my job, which means that most of my searches are technical queries. DuckDuckGo serves good results for my searches. I’ll admit that I’m a paranoid searcher: I reformat error strings, remove identifiers that are unique to my code, and remove quotes before searching. I’m not sure how well DuckDuckGo would handle copy/pasted error strings with lots of quotes and unique identifiers. This means that I don’t know if DuckDuckGo handles all technical searches well. But it does a good job for me.”

In some areas, Google still maintains a strong advantage over DuckDuckGo. This includes product search and local search, and there are relatively rare issues that Google still returns useful results, and DuckDuckGo may find nothing.