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Did anyone notice that DDG recently stopped treating prefix - as a way to remove search results that contain the prefixed term, i.e. -news would remove all page
by bitL 8y ago
Did anyone notice that DDG recently stopped treating prefix - as a way to remove search results that contain the prefixed term, i.e. -news would remove all pages with "news"? It is now instead highlighting "news" as the term you searched for... I hope this is just a bug they are going to fix, otherwise I'd have no choice but to migrate elsewhere, as without it search results are mostly useless.
- drhodes 8y agodash works for me. Maybe the issue is specific to "news"? bulger bulger -whitey return different results as expected.
- yorwba 8y agoMaybe your keyboard is not actually inserting an ASCII "-"? Compare https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker%20ycombinator%20%CB%97news https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker%20ycombinator%20%CB%97n... and https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker%20ycombinator%20%2Dnews https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker%20ycombinator%20%2Dnews
- bitL 8y agoHmm, that's scary. On Linux Mint it inserts the first one, on macOS the second one...
- yorwba 8y agoThere are a whole bunch of similar-looking Unicode characters: - ˗ ֊ ‒ – — ― − Something between your keyboard and the input box is probably trying to be helpful by not inserting a hyphen at the beginning of a word. You might be able to trick it by typing "x-news" then inserting a space or deleting the "x". Alternatively, file a bug report against your input method or tell DuckDuckGo about it so they can undo the transformation.
- arayh 8y agoI have noticed this... For instance, searching "dribbble -shots", the first result contains the word "shots" in bold. I'm not entirely sure what makes this happen and is sometimes frustrating when making "advanced searches". https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dribbble+-shots https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dribbble+-shots