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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

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305 points evolve2k | 2 comments | 14 Jun 13 01:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
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dpcan ◴[14 Jun 13 03:11 UTC] No.5878072[source]▶
OK, but tomorrow when I've forgotten that I've done this and I do a quick search, if the very first thing that comes up isn't what I want, I bet I switch right back.
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1. Helianthus ◴[14 Jun 13 03:47 UTC] No.5878156[source]▶
You get used to typing !g if you want google's results, and then it's automatically run through encrypted.google.com
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2. oelmekki ◴[14 Jun 13 07:19 UTC] No.5878707[source]▶
Also, since we talk about chrome, there are very handful and underused search engine shortcuts built in : simply type the first letters of the search engine in address bar and press <tab>.

I've switched to duckduckgo about a month ago, and indeed I'm regularly making search on google because duckduckgo just can't provide the results I want as well (especially when it comes to non english search). But it's way less a pain that it seems : I just type "g<tab>", and I'm using google. And I still have the high privacy advantage of duckduckgo for most of my searches where the duck is enough.

The bonus of that is that I now frequently use "gi<tab>" to search on github or "y<tab>" to search on youtube.