Both Meta and Google have said they would remove Canadian news from their platforms to avoid having to compensate the news outlets.

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        As much as I like to use duckduckgo, it’s still lacking when searching relevant stuff. But Google is annoying with it’s link redirect thing.

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          You can use bangs on ddg to use other search engines through duckduckgo. So !g <search terms> would do a google search.

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          People always say DDG search isn’t good but I never have any trouble. Can you give me an example?

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            I can’t give you one right away but usually when I switch to ddg as default, looking for examples say coding/stack exchange, or specific trobule shooting usually google’s result list is better.

            If you are really specific terms and there are only a couple available, then there is less difference.

            Ddg would have improved so we can’t really compare then and now.

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          Honestly, I switched to ddg as soon as Google rolled out amp, and found that it was better than google at finding relevant results