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I feel like the search results are getting better. EDIT: Complaint #1 removed. I can change the THEME in DDG to get blue links. Awesome. #2 Complaint is tha
by dpcan 11y ago
I feel like the search results are getting better.
EDIT: Complaint #1 removed. I can change the THEME in DDG to get blue links. Awesome.
#2 Complaint is that I dislike the font-weight changes on search sites. I don't need my search words bolded. I know what I searched for, I trust that those words are in the search results, you don't need to show them to me.
It's actually the SUPPORTING words around my keywords that are going to make me click them after I've already searched. So if anything should be bold, it should be those words because they set each listing apart from the others.
The Positive (for me):
As I do SEO for some companies sometimes, I often times use DDG as a baseline because it doesn't track me. If I see one of my companies ranked high in DDG AND Google, I believe what I'm seeing in Google in terms of SEO A little more. I know it's not really accurate, and I tell my clients this, but it's nice to say that DDG is not tracked so it's not influenced by my previous searches, and seeing a site ranked high there too is a really good thing in my opinion.
- AdamSC1 11y agoHi dpcan, Thanks for the feedback! Did you know you can change themes from the settings menu? You can then save them as a non-personalized cookie, anonymously to the cloud via a unique passphrase, or via a URL. The bookmarklet tool in the settings menu will build out a URL with any settings group so you can save, share and use your settings without anything local. For example here are the settings I use: https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d&k5=-1&kaj=m&kd=1 https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d&k5=-1&kaj=m&kd=1 Dark theme, metric system measurements, prompt for video play, prevent redirect. If you are a blue links fan you can try: https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=c https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=c That's our 'contrast' theme which pops out a bit more.