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I wonder what would happen if somehow duckduckgo managed to be the default firefox search engine. Their results compared to google aren't bad at all.


On my Firefox it is the default search engine.

Seriously, I was thinking the same thing a couple of days ago when I downloaded FF Beta 6. Adblock used to be my first installed extension, now DDG SSL search is. Right after that I "fix" the fallback address bar search as well.


I dunno. As an experiment I set my default search to duckduckgo about 3 weeks ago and I'd say I end up running about 30-40% of my searches a second time with the "!g" command to forward to Google instead.




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