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THANK YOU. I feel crazy when I tell people this but I 100% agree. Google seems to look at your search as a general guide now rather than actual parameters. I al

THANK YOU. I feel crazy when I tell people this but I 100% agree. Google seems to look at your search as a general guide now rather than actual parameters. I also have to surround each word in quotes or they get excluded on the SECOND OR THIRD RESULT. I'm very upset because this hinders my daily work and research. I'm starting to rely on Bing which is definitely worse than old Google but may be better than current Google. I want to like DDG but it's normally missing article dates or other small features I depend on. I'll keep checking in to see if this changes.

solarkraft 8y ago
Agreed. Feels nice to know others have the same problems.
- verelo 8y ago
  ha, a few weeks back a very similar post came up and i expressed that i felt the DDG results were letting me down. I just actually switched back to Google yesterday, i tried hard, but it just got too annoying having to search for 50% of things twice.
Y_Y 8y ago
Is there any possible way the old google could be resurrected? By google themselves or just someone cloning the tech? My google-fu keeps getting worse, on pages I know I've found handily in the past. I'd almost pay for a good search, cash or personal data or whatever.
- class4behavior 8y ago
  Google offers the verbatim mode (search for exact words of phrases) which you can activate in tools or by adding the tbs=li:1 parameter to the URL.
  - yesenadam 8y ago
    I've always used that, but it annoys me that verbatim can't be combined with e.g. restricting the date on a search, because both use the 'tbh' parameter.
iagovar 8y ago
That annoys me too, I tried with lite.qwant.com but their exact match operator annoys me, as I have a spanish keyboard. Results are decent but I just hate that.
fjp 8y ago
I know this could be overcome by me being less lazy, but my favorite thing about Google is the results I get without ever having to click a link. This is especially true for searching things like TV shows, actors/directors, athletes, etc. It's just great UX. I tried to switch to DDG on mobile recently (using the Brave browser) and I found myself really missing those inline results.

solarkraft 8y ago

Agreed. Feels nice to know others have the same problems.

verelo 8y ago
ha, a few weeks back a very similar post came up and i expressed that i felt the DDG results were letting me down. I just actually switched back to Google yesterday, i tried hard, but it just got too annoying having to search for 50% of things twice.

Y_Y 8y ago

Is there any possible way the old google could be resurrected? By google themselves or just someone cloning the tech? My google-fu keeps getting worse, on pages I know I've found handily in the past. I'd almost pay for a good search, cash or personal data or whatever.

class4behavior 8y ago
Google offers the verbatim mode (search for exact words of phrases) which you can activate in tools or by adding the tbs=li:1 parameter to the URL.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  I've always used that, but it annoys me that verbatim can't be combined with e.g. restricting the date on a search, because both use the 'tbh' parameter.

iagovar 8y ago

That annoys me too, I tried with lite.qwant.com but their exact match operator annoys me, as I have a spanish keyboard. Results are decent but I just hate that.

fjp 8y ago

I know this could be overcome by me being less lazy, but my favorite thing about Google is the results I get without ever having to click a link. This is especially true for searching things like TV shows, actors/directors, athletes, etc. It's just great UX. I tried to switch to DDG on mobile recently (using the Brave browser) and I found myself really missing those inline results.