Why “DDG” is being discussed
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Losing a trademark to a generic word can make marketing a lot harder, though. A company often needs a new brand then, because everyone else can use their old brand in the market…
by WorldMaker · Sep 30, 2026
How are y'all still using Google as your search engine? I've been using DDG for years now and i'm completely fine with it, even tough i keep hearing people on the internet claim…
by Muhammad523 · Sep 28, 2026
DDG is marginally better, but its search indexing just uses Bing's (which is dogwater terrible), and it isn't kept up to date.
by VCFundedGenYer · Sep 28, 2026
I've been fairly impressed by DDG for a few years now. I find everything I'm looking for just fine, and the AI summaries are actually helpful on occasion.
by seanw444 · Sep 28, 2026
Web search is just broken right now. Today I was looking for documentation for a specific Lenovo motherboard. I gave both DDG and Google the exact model number and both returned…
by encom · Sep 28, 2026
I don't generally find !g gives me better results than DDG and if I instead went to Google I'd get dinged with a Captcha on every search because Google seems to hate my small IS…
by deltoidmaximus · Sep 28, 2026
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DDG may refer to:IATA code for Dandong Langtou Airport, China Danish demining group DuckDuckGo, an internet search engine Duck, duck, goose, a traditional children's game Dried distillers' grain, a cereal byproduct of the distillation process Hull classification symbol for NATO guided-missile destroyers Drop Dead, Gorgeous, a post-hardcore band DDG (rapper), stage name of American musician Darryl Granberry Jr. David de Gea, Spanish goalkeeper DDG Hansa, Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa, German Steamship Company Hansa ddg, the ISO 639-3 code for the Fataluku language Read more on Wikipedia