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Yes I think that exact matches have suffered but perhaps semantic matches have remained the same. Qualifiers (is that the word) like + and "" are completely br
by zackmorris 8y ago
Yes I think that exact matches have suffered but perhaps semantic matches have remained the same. Qualifiers (is that the word) like + and "" are completely broken compared to how they used to work, so https://duckduckgo.com https://duckduckgo.com almost always gives better results now for programming-related queries. Question searches no longer work as well as they once did maybe 10 years ago.
But hey, Google's search is still infinitely better than Facebook's and GitHub's (the only other two that I use with any frequency). The StackOverflow search that kicks in when you're writing a new issue is generally superb and I really wonder how they did it (sometimes I begin writing a new issue to get it to really dig deep and find similar issues).
- kjrose 8y agoYeah, I use DDG and then switch over to Google when DDG doesn't give me good results. Got used to using !g a lot. However, lately, I've been finding that I'll do a !g first, and then switch back to plain DDG since the Google results were terrible.
- tafycent 8y agoFacebook's search function actually just doesn't work for me. I'll search for someone by name and it just returns me a list of friend suggestions that's the same no matter what name I search for. It may as well not have a search function at all.
- pranay01 8y agoThis reminds me a blog by PG where he proposed that Google can be disrupted by building search engine for techies (for e.g.) At that time it sounded preposterous to me, as Google worked perfectly fine for me - but now I really see this as a possibility. I think DuckDuckGo is following this strategy.