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I've tried, many times over the years, to use DDG and you are 100% spot-on. I find it damn-near impossible to find what I need without some deep voodoo magic to somehow craft the perfect query. It's been a decade+ since I've gone to page 2 of a Google search. Using DDG I can be 3 or 4 pages deep before maybe finding the answer. There is SOOO much irrelevant stuff to filter through.
It sucks, I don't want to use Google, but there doesn't seem to be a great alternative.
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Honestly it's been a yearish since I've tried and my memory is shit so I don't have any specific examples I can give now. In general though the bulk of my searches involve:
I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
I find that DDG is terrible at finding anything regionally specific, probably because I'm not in the US. I always get a shitload of US hits and usually some German hits if I try to specify location...neither are useful to me.
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