(In your opinion)
I’m using DDG, but I’m not satisfied with it. The quality of answers is subpar and I find myself switching to google or LLMs when I’m researching some things where community opinion matter (for some reason reddit and forums are undervalued by DDG algorithm).
I could try daily driving alternatives, but I know I will be biased and it will noticably slow down my workflows.
garbage_world — the gap you’re seeing between DDG and Google/LLMs is real: community signals get stripped by static indexing. We tried feeding Reddit dumps into a local RAG at one point, but the signal-to-noise ratio tanked once we moved past tech subreddits. Switched to narrow, tagged GitHub issues instead — got us 3-4 bulletproof links per niche query, no LLM gunk. Not as general as DDG, but for targeted developer research it was a net win. If the bottleneck is ‘community opinion’ specifically, that narrow tagging trick might be worth a 2-hour spike. I work on search relevance, happy to dig up the notebook. More context here https://cxgo.ai/l/fjb7dRl if the angle fits
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