After hearing about it on ycombinator, I switched my browser’s default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo a couple of days ago and I’ve been quite impressed so far.  I like that it puts the definition of my query front and center, if it’s available (Wikipedia is usually the source of the definition).

I also think DuckDuckGo has a better disambiguation system than Google’s results page.  For example, I was searching for the price of gold and was lazy so I just typed “Gold” in to the DDG search bar.  A whole list of interesting meanings for gold came up that I didn’t realize existed (such as the Gold parser, or the 1934 film called Gold).  I didn’t find the price of gold, so I typed out the full “Price of Gold” and immediately found what I was looking for.  The “right answer” seems to be the first link more often than not.  I’ll keep experimenting.

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