A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice's case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits
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Reading the article, I think the biggest hurdle for adoption of DDG in Europe is simply that the search results in non-english suck in comparison to other search engines. Not only that, but if my language contains characters outside of ASCII, performing a query and then repeating the query with a bang to get better result from another engine results in failure to redirect. Now I have to cut the query, repeat the bang and then paste the query into the other engine manually.

I think the biggest hurdle for adoption of DDG ~in Europe~ is simply that the search results ~in non-english~ suck in comparison to other search engines named Google.

:(((

Still use it though, just expect to add !g half the time.

Two tildes have to be enclosed around text to get a strike-through styling. ~~like this~~ like this

duh thanks :)

Voyager iOS tricks me, still shows strikeouts with single tildes!

If you upgrade, this should be fixed btw!

Yayyy!

Shows single-tilde enclosures as superscript. That’s expected right?

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Ddg still has its issues, but it can be useful for avoiding some types of SEO targeting articles

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Sorry, had to clarify. The results suck for non-english content.

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