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Which queries in particular? I've found duckduckgo to be quite useful especially for IT questions because it actually listens when I tell it to search a phrase verbatim. If I try to google an error then I keep getting all kinds of stuff that is vaguely related but with no mention of that particular error whatsoever.


StackOverflow stuff, for me. I always have to prepend `g!` to those.

Google must index SO better or something because there's always so many more useful results (particularly in the little "sub-results" below any SO result) than what DDG gives. E.g., compare:

DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bash+pass+argument+to+anoth...

Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bash%20pass%20argument...


It looks the info you want is in at least each of first 4 results on ddg. Specifically the 1st ddg result for me is a stackoverflow post with the question showing how to pass individual arguments and the answers explaining how to pass a variable number of arguments. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3811345/how-to-pass-all-...) I would say ddg gave better results.




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