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Quick question: what types of searches are better done through DDG than Google? I've tried a few searches, but haven't found DDG better than Google...is DDG su
by resdirector 16y ago
Quick question: what types of searches are better done through DDG than Google? I've tried a few searches, but haven't found DDG better than Google...is DDG superior only for certain types of searches?
- jodrellblank 16y agoIf you search for the MD5 hash of an email address, DDG finds them on Disqus (if they exist there) and Google doesn't. Only one I've actually noticed ;)
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoYou can also md5 an email http://duckduckgo.com/?q=md5+yegg%40alum.mit.edu http://duckduckgo.com/?q=md5+yegg%40alum.mit.edu :). More goodies at http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html & http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
- epi0Bauqu 16y agohttp://duckduckgo.com/about.html http://duckduckgo.com/about.html Of course it is subjective, but it really should be better across a wide swatch of searches. I think it is most clear though on what is X searches. The information view (from the home page) goes even further on these type of searches and grabs topic summaries in real time. Other areas where I think we do noticeably better on average are with names and long un-quoted searches (5+ words). Of course you can find counter-examples everywhere... What I always suggest to people is to give it a week as your primary search engine. If you (or anyone) do/does, I'd really appreciate you getting back to me with your feedback.
- resdirector 16y agoVery initial impression: * I like the zero-click info. * Is disambiguation redundant? Can't you just infer from history and location? Or is this against your privacy policy? The single most frustrating thing I find about search engines is iterating a non-trivial search. It doesn't seem like DDG has an edge against Google here. I long to see a search engine that makes it easy to send a question off to Quora, Vark etc.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoHow would that work exactly in your mind? We already have a feature to send your search to hundreds of other sites, http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html Is it as simple as redirecting you to those sites, or do you mean manage the workflow, email you the results, etc.?
- resdirector 16y ago(I like the bang feature: many of my searches are of the form "wiki william henry harrison". By the way, I think the search results for http://duckduckgo.com/?q=william+henry+harrison http://duckduckgo.com/?q=william+henry+harrison are out of order) My ideal search-engine would be a cross between a traditional search-engine (machine) and a Q&A site (humans). If you were taking a lot of iterations to find your answer, you could simply expand the text-area to allow you to write out a human question. So, short of DDG becoming also a Q&A site....yeah, dunno :P.
- joe_bleau 16y agoLast time I looked at DDG, it required javascript. That's a negative in my book.
- resdirector 16y agoI used DDG for an hour, and although I like the zero-click, I'm going to change back to Google: I've had a few searches like this: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=gwt+log+javadoc&v= http://duckduckgo.com/?q=gwt+log+javadoc&v= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=gwt+log+javadoc&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=gwt+lo... Which Google performs better at.
- jacquesm 16y agoDDG seems to be less 'shopping biased' than google, and seems to do a better job of categorizing stuff. I wished some search engine would implement a 'context' search though, that would really make my day. Trying to find something like 'go' by keyword search alone is really a problem, you always have to add a bunch of other keywords in the hope that that will narrow it down enough, if you could just filter out those contexts that you're not interested in after the first search is over that would be really neat.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agohttp://duckduckgo.com/?q=go http://duckduckgo.com/?q=go ?