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I get frustrated very often with DDG I get frustrated with Google (I don't use DDG much, so I'm not that familiar with the limitations). Google has repeatedly
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
I get frustrated very often with DDG
I get frustrated with Google (I don't use DDG much, so I'm not that familiar with the limitations). Google has repeatedly crippled search, made it worse than it was.
E.g. you used to be able to say +yesIwantthis and your results definitely included that word. Now, not so much. It's now something to do with Google+. Now, you can't force Google to truly include particular words. You can try, but I don't think it always works. E.g. you can say "yes" "search" "all" "these" "words", and maybe it will and maybe it won't.
Advanced search has definitely gotten worse. Frankly its at the point that I'd be willing to pay someone $10/mo to get a search engine that's a) good and b) truly gives me control.
Meet the new Google, worse than the old Google.
- 0xcde4c3db 11y agoThey added a "Verbatim" mode to force all search terms to appear (in the "Search Tools" bar, click "All results" and change it to "Verbatim"). But it's all-or-nothing; it can't be applied to individual terms. It also can't be combined with the timespan searches; changing one resets the other. The old syntax with + was definitely more useful.